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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
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Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High

October 13, 2022

Having held at a pandemic high of 21.7 percent in the second quarter of this year, the effective office vacancy rate in San Francisco ticked up another 130 basis points…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Hits a 20-Year High

October 13, 2022

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped another 26 basis points (0.26 percentage points) over the past week to 6.92 percent, an average rate which is now 128…

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Prestigious High-Rise Unit Drops Further Below Its 2016 Price

October 12, 2022

Purchased for $3.25 million in May of 2016, the three-bedroom, three-bath unit #32E in the Lumina tower at 338 Main Street, which “exemplifies the prestige of highrise (sic) living,” resold…

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Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less

October 11, 2022

Totaling over 5,300 square feet of space, 93 Cumberland Street is one of the four massive “Light House” condos that were created when the former Second Church of Christ at…

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Pending Home Sales in San Francisco Down Nearly 50 Percent

October 11, 2022

While the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, i.e., inventory, has been up an average of 26 percent on a year-over-year basis over the past three…

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Asking Rents in San Francisco Slip, Availability Ticks Up

October 7, 2022

Having held in August, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco actually slipped around a percent in September to $3,725 per month, representing the first pullback…

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Shuttered Brewery Hits the Market, Tower Plans Shelved

October 5, 2022

As we revealed earlier this year, a team was exploring the possibility of demolishing the Thirsty Bear Brewery building at 661 Howard Street and developing a bonus-sized residential tower rising…

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Mortgage Application Volume Plummets

October 5, 2022

With the benchmark 30-year mortgage rate nearing a 20-year high, mortgage loan application volume plummeted over 14 percent last week, with a 13 percent drop in applications to purchase a…

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San Francisco’s Housing Pipeline Hits a New High

October 4, 2022

The total number of units in San Francisco’s housing pipeline, including affordable units that are slated to be rebuilt, hit a record high of over 80,000 in the first quarter…

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Inventory Appears to Have Peaked, Reductions Still on the Rise

October 3, 2022

Driven by a slowdown in new listing activity versus an uptick in the pace of sales, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, which is currently…

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    The owner apparently disagreed, and tried the leasing option. Roughly a month after the above main post, Apt 602's listing…

  2. Conifer on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag

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  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag

    You were spot on for the selling price, but years off on the time frame. After several listing removal and…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Motivated Sellers Drop Price for Light Filled Dogpatch Loft, Again

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  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    Then the owner should sell the property to someone who can get the job done. Apparently the Y-I-M-B-Ys are apparently…

  6. tipster on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    Ha ha, "upon the slopped site" Little did the editor realize the foreshadowing of this typo in the 2019 post.…

  7. Notcom on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    I've never heard of a billboard holding up a project - and can a billboard really be "demolished"? - so…

  8. The Milkshake of Despair on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    No update, just a guess that the developer realized a modern new development was not going to attract the offers…

  9. Marcus on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    It's now seven years since this posting. Any update? Seems Mavrik Studio is out of business.

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less

    I completely agree, and if you're looking for a natural test of whether or not the extremely heated market dynamics…

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