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Buena Vista View Mansion Reduced Over 20 Percent

June 24, 2022

As we outlined back in 2012, the 7,138-square-foot home at 15 Buena Vista Terrace was built on a double lot with panoramic views and luxury finishes throughout. Think Poggenpohl, Gaggenau…

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Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Ticks Up, But…

June 24, 2022

Having dropped 12.0 percent in April, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. increased 10.7 percent in May to an annualized rate of 696,000 sales.…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Crosses Its 30 Year Average

June 23, 2022

Having inched up another 3 basis points (0.03 percentage points) over the past week to 5.81 percent, which is the highest average 30-year mortgage rate since November of 2008, the…

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Pace of Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Continues to Fall

June 22, 2022

Having dropped 2.4 percent in April, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. fell another 3.4 percent in May to an annual rate of 5.41 million sales,…

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Another Approved Tower Not Positioning to Break Ground

June 22, 2022

As we outlined and suggested earlier this year: The refined plans for a 14-story tower with a variegated upper mass to rise upon the Polk Gulch parcel at 925 O’Farrell…

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Inventory Levels Keep Climbing in San Francisco

June 21, 2022

Tracking a couple of trends that shouldn’t have caught any plugged-in readers by surprise, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco ticked up another 3 percent…

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Over 570,000 Bay Area Jobs Have Been Recovered, 79K to Go

June 17, 2022

Having slipped in April, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck inched up by 1,100 in May to 556,100. As such, there are now 48,900…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Rockets, Nearing 6 Percent

June 16, 2022

The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage rocketed 55 basis points (0.55 percentage points) over the past week to 5.78 percent which is the highest average rate since November…

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All Eyes on The Fed and Projected Rate Hike(s), Again

June 15, 2022

The probability of the Fed raising the federal funds rate by three quarters of a percentage point (75 basis points) this afternoon has jumped from under 10 percent last week…

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Exceptional and Luxurious View Condo Fetches…

June 15, 2022

As we outlined back in March, the 2,053-square-foot, three-bedroom unit #3501 in The Avery at 488 Folsom Street, which was purchased for $3.75 million in July of 2019, features “an…

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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…

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Buena Vista View Mansion Reduced Over 20 Percent

Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Ticks Up, But…

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Crosses Its 30 Year Average

Pace of Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Continues to Fall

Another Approved Tower Not Positioning to Break Ground

Inventory Levels Keep Climbing in San Francisco

Over 570,000 Bay Area Jobs Have Been Recovered, 79K to Go

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