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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…

Notcom on Infamous Sea Cliff Mansion Slated for Foreclosure, Again
Remember being a currently imprisoned felon is not a bar to running for President! So will Luke allow Eugene Debs…
The Milkshake of Despair on Infamous Sea Cliff Mansion Slated for Foreclosure, Again
Wow, that guy has really taken to heart our nation's recent "cheat, lie, and deny" zeitgeist. Thanks for the update.
Brahma (incensed renter) on Infamous Sea Cliff Mansion Slated for Foreclosure, Again
Follow up: After six months on the lam, Luke Brugnara was taken into custody in the Sunset District in late…
Brahma (incensed renter) on New Plans for Big Polk Gulch Infill Project
Y-I-M-B-Y advocacy journalists want us to believe that if only we support State Legislators in their campaign to impose political…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Looking for (Another) Sub-2014 Priced High-End Loft?
The owner apparently disagreed, and tried the leasing option. Roughly a month after the above main post, Apt 602's listing…
Conifer on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag
Perhaps Brahma should take over SocketSite and bring it back to life. I am just a long-term, half a century,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag
You were spot on for the selling price, but years off on the time frame. After several listing removal and…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Motivated Sellers Drop Price for Light Filled Dogpatch Loft, Again
The AI Boom! continues to show the incredible impact of wealth creation in S.F. and on S.F. real estate. 578…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards
Then the owner should sell the property to someone who can get the job done. Apparently the Y-I-M-B-Ys are apparently…
tipster on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards
Ha ha, "upon the slopped site" Little did the editor realize the foreshadowing of this typo in the 2019 post.…

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