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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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Repositioned for an “Over Asking!” Sale and Top Ten List or Two

March 3, 2022

Taken down to the studs and completely renovated in 2016, the 4-bedroom Bernal Heights home at 600 Gates Street hit the market priced at $1.699 million that May and sold…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Dips with a Flight to Safety in Play

March 3, 2022

Having slipped 3 basis points (0.03 percentage points) last week, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has since pulled back another 13 basis points to 3.76 percent with…

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Near Certainty for a Quarter Point Rate Hike (And Then Some)

March 2, 2022

As we outlined a couple of weeks ago, the bond market was projecting that the Fed would institute a quarter point (25 basis point) interest rate hike later this month.…

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Asking Rents in S.F. Slip, Listings Drop to Pre-Pandemic Levels

March 1, 2022

Having ticked up in January, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco slipped around 2 percent in February to $3,340 month, which is roughly 6 percent…

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The Re-Opening of San Francisco’s Economy, February Report

February 28, 2022

Having dropped back under 20 percent in January, driven by the Omicron surge, the weekly attendance rate for office workers in San Francisco, which was nearing 30 percent in mid-December,…

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Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Climbs

February 28, 2022

The number of homes on the market in San Francisco, net of all new sales, either pending or closed, climbed another 8 percent over the past week to 850, representing…

Bay Buildings City Planning Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Seemingly Random

Heads Up

February 25, 2022

Triggered by a complaint of “deadly large rocks” raining down on the little public beach below, an engineer’s report has confirmed an erosion of the cliff behind the infamous seven-bedroom…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Drop, Down 9.5 Percent YOY

February 25, 2022

Having ticked down 3.8 percent in December, 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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Special Zoning for New Irish Cultural Center Formally Sought

February 24, 2022

As we outlined at the end of last year: San Francisco’s Planning Department has just completed its preliminary review of the bold plans for an all-new United Irish Cultural Center…

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Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Drops, Inventory Up

February 24, 2022

The seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped 4.5 percent in January to an annualized rate of 801,000 transactions and was down 19.3 percent on…

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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