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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But… Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale
Real Estate Economics Rentals Trends

Average Asking Rent in San Francisco Ended the Year Up, But…

December 29, 2022

While the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco is ending the year around 5 percent higher than at the end of 2021, it ticked down 2…

Breaking News Real Estate Economics Trends

Pending Price per Square Foot Drops to a Five-Year Low in S.F.

December 28, 2022

With the Case-Shiller index for Bay Area home values, which is a lagging indicator, having shed 13 percent since May and headed down, the average price per square foot of…

Breaking News Bubble (Or Not) East Bay Industry Stuff Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Index for Bay Area Homes Has Dropped 13%, Headed Down

December 27, 2022

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – ticked down another 1.7…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Two Modern Mansions and a Driveway with Hidden Parking

December 23, 2022

With permits to demolish the existing 3,600-square-foot home at 178 Sea Cliff Avenue and build a modern new 8,000-square-foot home on the site having survived a challenge, been approved and…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Pace of New Home Sales Ticks Up, But…

December 23, 2022

While the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 5.8 percent in November to an annualized rate of 640,000 sales, the pace was still…

Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Trends

Fully-Approved Polk Street Project Put Up for Sale

December 22, 2022

As we outlined last year, a building permit for the fully-entitled, 97-unit development to rise up to 80 feet in height on the Out of the Closet site on the…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inches Down, But…

December 22, 2022

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched down another 4 basis points (0.04 percentage points) over the past week to 6.27 percent but remains 106 percent higher than…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Mid-Market Condo Resells for 29 Percent Below Its 2018 Price

December 22, 2022

Purchased for a comp-setting $882,000 or roughly $1,313 per square foot in October of 2018, having been priced at $967,000 or $1,439 per foot by the sales office in 2017,…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Bonus Plans for Lower Potrero Hill Parking Lot Closer to Reality

December 21, 2022

Plans for a 5-story, 48-unit apartment building to rise on the odd-shaped Regents Cab Company parking lot parcel at 98 Pennsylvania Avenue in Lower Potrero Hill were approved back in…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

New Home Demand Down 25 Percent, Average Loan Size Drops

December 20, 2022

While the number of new homes on the market across the nation is approaching a 15-year high, with over 20 percent more inventory than at the same time last year,…

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Recent Reader Activity
  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

    152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market

    Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced

    Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

    Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…

  7. steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Probably won't meaningfully decrease the amount of office space on the market. Google is pulling out of it's lease at…

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