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Market Transparency in the Mission Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Holds Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump High-End Pied-à-Terre Relisted Anew at a Larger Loss Apples-to-Apples for an Elegant Nob Hill Pad
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Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

August 15, 2023

As we revealed earlier this year, the modern 25-unit development at 603 Tennessee Street, across the street from UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, a block from Chase Center and a short…

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Asking Prices in San Francisco Down 10 Percent, Pending Prices Lower

August 14, 2023

While nearly 60 percent fewer single-family homes and condos were newly listed for sale in San Francisco over the past week than at the same time last year, listed inventory…

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Revised Plans for New 524-Unit Tower Officially Approved, But…

August 11, 2023

As we outlined back in June: The revised plans for a 35-story tower to rise up to 369 feet in height on the 90-space parking lot parcel at 395 3rd…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Hit 7 Percent

August 10, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 6 basis points (0.06 percentage points) over the past week to 6.96 percent, which is 174 basis points higher than…

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Moderne Telegraph Hill Penthouse Trades Down Over $200K

August 10, 2023

Quietly acquired for $2.2 million three years ago, the vintage penthouse unit #12 atop the Art Moderne Malloch Building at 1360 Montgomery Street, an 1,100-square-foot one-bedroom unit with over 700…

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Average Asking Rent in San Francisco Just Dropped YOY

August 9, 2023

While the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco proper has been holding firm at around $3,600 a month since mid-March, it’s now down nearly 4 percent…

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More Height and Time for Market-Rate Hub District Tower Approved

August 8, 2023

Once again, as we revealed at the end of last year, a modification to the approved plans for Related California’s 365-foot-tall tower to rise on the parking lot parcel at…

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Mortgage Credit Availability Slips on Jumbo Lending Concerns

August 8, 2023

Having dropped to a 10-year low in June, mortgage credit availability, as indexed by the Mortgage Bankers Association, inched down another 0.3 percent in July to its lowest level since…

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Truth in Advertising Take Two

August 7, 2023

Purchased as “a diamond in the rough” for $1.5 million in September of 2016, the remodeled 1,880-square-foot Noe Valley home at 374 Valley Street returned to the market listed for…

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Number of Homes on the Market in S.F. Drops, Prices Too

August 7, 2023

The net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco ticked down 6 percent over the past week and is now 18 percent lower than at…

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  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Market Transparency in the Mission

    Good points. Noted! As far as using the yield of 10 year Treasury bonds for a hurdle rate, investing in…

  2. Dixon Hill on Market Transparency in the Mission

    According to the agent's comments on Redfin, this is a Saitowitz building. He worked with the existing facade, despite the…

  3. Dixon Hill on Market Transparency in the Mission

    You forgot to deduct a 5% management fee ($2,052/year in your scenario). Needs to be deducted, even if the owner…

  4. jimbo on Market Transparency in the Mission

    would someone really pay $3500/ mo to live in that location? i cant imagine this would rent for more than…

  5. jimbo on Market Transparency in the Mission

    $552K

  6. jenofla on Market Transparency in the Mission

    $3600 a month to rent that? Man, I feel old. I've been saying this for decades now. "They want $1200…

  7. Brahma (incensed renter) on Market Transparency in the Mission

    This building was completed in 2015, so this property might be interesting to mom and pop landlords concerned with the…

  8. Panhandle Pro on Market Transparency in the Mission

    Disagree. 15th and Mission is fine. The Target under the freeway doesn't move the needle one way or the other.

  9. Panhandle Pro on Market Transparency in the Mission

    This unit seems like a decent value on its face. Good location, HOA dues of "only" $640 a month which…

  10. Daniel on Market Transparency in the Mission

    This place is on a pretty rough stretch on Mission. If your vision of Mission life is being immersed in…

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