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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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Another Reduction for the Redeveloped BrainWash Building/Site

July 6, 2022

Purchased for $4.6 million in February of 2018 and then remodeled to yield four office suites over an open 4,000-square-foot retail space, with four new bathrooms and a newly poured…

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Price Cut(s) for Permitted Third Street Building to Rise

July 5, 2022

Acquired for $1,075,000 in the second quarter of 2018, with plans for a skinny six-story, seven-unit building to rise on the site having been drawn, the fire-damaged McAfee’s One Hour…

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Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Drops, But…

July 5, 2022

Driven by a typical slowdown in new listing activity prior to a holiday weekend, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco (a.k.a “inventory”) dropped 10 percent…

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Premium for Renting in San Francisco Is Ticking Back Up

July 1, 2022

Having hit $3,500 at the end of May, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has since ticked up another 2 percent to $3,575 a month,…

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Bigger Than Bonus Plans for Polk Gulch Parking Garage Site

June 30, 2022

Having failed to sell at auction and survived a foreclosure scare, plans to entitle a bigger-than-bonus-sized tower to rise on the former National Guard armory turned parking garage site at…

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Masterfully Remodeled Noe Valley Home Fetches $1,400 Per Foot

June 29, 2022

Purchased in an off-market sale for $4.988 million or roughly $1,136 per square foot in March of 2019, the “masterfully remodeled,” 4,390-square-foot Noe Valley home at 2430 Castro Street returned…

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Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Down Over 20 Percent

June 29, 2022

Mortgage loan application volume in the U.S., which dropped to a 22-year low a few weeks ago, inched up 0.7 percent over the past week on a seasonally adjusted basis.…

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Index for Bay Area House Values Ticks up 2.2 Percent

June 28, 2022

Having jumped a downwardly revised 4.3 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay,…

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Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Inch Up, Drop Year-Over-Year

June 28, 2022

Having dropped 3.9 percent in April to a near decade low, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average…

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Over Twice as Many Homes on the Market in S.F. Than in 2019

June 27, 2022

Despite a slowdown in the number of homes that have been newly listed for sale over the past month, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco,…

Brahma (incensed renter) on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
From a piece by Jessica Blough datelined Oct 9, 2026 (Illegal former Academy of Art dorms are being turned into…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Drawing a Line at Linea
After a bit over twenty-five months since last changing hands, the 8th floor with no unit above and views from…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Price Cut for San Francisco Living at Its Finest
Follow-up: Brahma won, at only a 13.7 percent difference between the above-commented guess and the ultimate selling price achieved 1…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Best Two-Bedroom Quietly Trades Down a Million Bucks
All they needed to do was hold. Returning to market four years ago at the asking price of $6,950,000 (or…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory
If you're confused, it's understandable. For another piece of evidence, see this other site — which is not the listing…
Notcom on Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory
Call me confused, but this property's website https://www.3107th.com/ - it's own website??? Natch - shows a figure of $5.8. So…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory
Based on the reporting earlier this year in The San Francisco Standard, I would say he needs the money, largely…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Sellers at The Harrison are Taking Some Big(ger) Hits
It did languish on the market, for over 760 days. After originally listing in late May 2024 asking $1.275 million,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Apt 35E at Apt 30A at The Millennium Tower was listed in mid-January 2026 asking $1,695,000 (or < $990 per…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less
While my selling price call turned out to be correct, the seller didn't have to wait until after the two…

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