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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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Over 40% More Sub-Million Dollar Homes on the Market in SF

August 8, 2022

While the net number of condos and single-family homes listed for sale in San Francisco (1,160) ticked down 2 percent over the past week, as is typical for the first…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Trends

Another Fully-Approved, Unbuilt Development Hits The Market

August 5, 2022

While plans to raze the shuttered Schwarz/Home/Engelhart sausage outlet at 1726-1730 Mission Street and develop a six-story building upon the Mission District site were approved back in 2017, and building…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Plunges Back Under 5 Percent

August 4, 2022

Despite the Fed’s recent rate hikes, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage had plunged from 5.81 to 4.99 percent over the past six weeks, including a 31 basis…

Bay Buildings Commercial Neighborhoods

Surreptitious Plans to Fell The Royal Oak

August 3, 2022

Opened in 1975 and shuttered by the pandemic, the Royal Oak bar and two-story building at 2201 Polk Street, on the northwest corner of Polk and Vallejo, hit the market…

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Asking Rents in San Francisco Jump, Poised to Rise

August 2, 2022

Having hit $3,575 at the end of June, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has since jumped another 5 percent to $3,750 a month, which…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Discounted San Francisco Shipyard Condo Trades Down

August 2, 2022

Priced by the sales office at $600,500, relative to the other units in the second wave of development at the San Francisco Shipyard, the list price for the 611-square-foot, one-bedroom…

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De-Mergified Home Trades for $4.5 Million

August 1, 2022

As we outlined, with graphics, back in January, at which point a pending sale of the “four-bedroom home” had been removed from the MLS: Purchased as a little two-unit building…

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Inventory in San Francisco Is Up 30 Percent, Sales Drop

August 1, 2022

While the net number of single-family homes and condos for sale in San Francisco inched down a little under a percent over the past week to 1,180, inventory levels typically…

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Fraudster’s Luxuriously Crafted Townhome Forfeited, Reduced

July 29, 2022

Purchased by a former Cisco Executive for $3.5 million in 2016 with funds that appear to have been acquired by way of an illegal kickback scheme, the 2,888-square-foot townhome unit…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Buyer Pool Shrinks, Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Down 20 Percent

July 29, 2022

Having inched up 0.7 percent in May, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, dropped…

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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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