Mortgage Rate Forecast For 2014
With the Federal Reserve continuing to taper stimulus spending despite a housing recovery that’s “struggling to shift into a higher gear,” Freddie Mac is forecasting the average rate for 30-year…
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With the Federal Reserve continuing to taper stimulus spending despite a housing recovery that’s “struggling to shift into a higher gear,” Freddie Mac is forecasting the average rate for 30-year…
When the projected cost for the first phase of San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center rose from $1.6 billion to $1.9 billion last year, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) diverted…
Across Van Ness Avenue from two 13-story towers slated to rise, Trumark Companies is planning to raze five little buildings between 1527 and 1545 Pine Street and construct a 12-story…
Plans to raze the Mid-Market Hollywood Billiards building at 1028 Market Street and construct a 13-story building with 186 dwelling units have been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department for…
With the Nob Hill Neighbors’ appeal to block the development of 1601 Larkin Street denied and the project’s permits reinstated, the dilapidated First St. John’s United Methodist Church at the…
With the number of San Francisco residents with jobs having increased by 10,000 over the past year, the unemployment rate in the city has dropped to 4.4 percent and employment…
As we wrote last week, what happens when you list a big Pacific Heights property that’s in good condition, and with even better bones, for $687 a square foot while…
In a preemptive move designed to counter the likely passage of Proposition B (the Waterfront Height Limit Right to Vote Act), a ballot measure to increase the existing building height…
Having dropped to a six-month low last week, the average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage has ticked down one more basis point to 4.20 percent, 38 basis points below…
The 475-square-foot “junior one bedroom” condo #629 at 177 Townsend Street was purchased for $466,000 in August of 2007 and resold for $295,000 in November of 2011. With “over 35K”…