Purchase Activity for New Homes in the U.S. Ticks Down
Despite February typically marking the start of the spring home buying season, mortgage application volume to purchase a new home in the U.S. actually ticked down 1 percent in the…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Rockets Back Over 4 Percent
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped 31 basis points (0.31 percentage points) over the past week to 4.16 percent, which is 35 percent (107 basis points) higher…
Plans for Massive New Distribution Center(s) Closer to Reality
It was that back in 2014 that we first noted that the LaSalle Industrial Park complex at 749 Toland Street, upon which four single-story warehouse buildings with a total of…
Mortgage Loan Application Volumes Slip, Rate Hikes Pending
Having ticked up last week from a two-year low, mortgage loan application volumes to either purchase or refinance a home in the U.S. have slipped a percent on both a…
Amended Plans for More Parking and a Gated Mid-Block Mews
With construction on the five-story development on the northeast corner of Howard and Ninth nearing completion and pre-sales of the building’s 129 condos underway, the project team is seeking a…
Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Remains Down
As we outlined yesterday, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco has ticked up to a 10-year seasonal high, driven by a slowdown in the pace of…
Number of Homes for Sale in S.F. Hits a 10-Year Seasonal High
Having ticked up another 5 percent over the past week driven by a slowdown in the pace of sales, which is down year-over-year, the net number of homes on the…
Bay Area Employment Slipped in January
Having increased by an upwardly revised 3,400 in December, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck ticked up by 1,100 in January to (a downwardly…
How That Happened on Ripley Street
Access to the garage of the little Bernal Heights home at 237 Ripley Street was blocked when Ripley, which had been a dirt street, was re-graded and paved in the…
Plans for Bayview to Get Lucky Proceed
The formal application to convert the shuttered 9,549-square-foot Walgreens within the Bayview Plaza Shopping Center at 3801 3rd Street into a supermarket has been submitted to Planning. And while the…