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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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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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