Benchmark Mortgage Rate Slips, Only 31 Percent Higher YOY
Having jumped nearly 30 percent over the past two months, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage pulled back 3 basis points (0.03 percentage points) over the past week…
Inventory Levels Are Climbing in San Francisco
Having ticked up 2 percent over the past week, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco (790) has increased 70 percent since the end of last…
Mortgage Loan Application Volume Drops to a Two-Year Low
With the benchmark 30-year mortgage rate having jumped and lending standards tightening, mortgage loan application volumes to either purchase or refinance a home in the U.S. dropped 13.1 percent on…
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If You Think You Know Bernal, Now’s the Time to Tell
Purchased for $2.25 million in April of 2018, having been newly expanded and remodeled, the Bernal Heights view home at 149 Bradford Street returned to the market three weeks ago…
Index for Bay Area House Values Gained 18.8 Percent in 2021
Having inched up an upwardly revised 0.6 percent in November, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East…
Supersized Polk Gulch Redevelopment Slated for Approval
The supersized plans for redeveloping the Polk Gulch funeral home site at 1123 Sutter Street, along with the adjacent three-story garage at the corner of Sutter and Larkin, are slated…
Pace of Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Ticks Up (But Down)
Having dropped 4.6 percent in December, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. increased 6.7 percent in January to an annual rate of 6.50 million sales, according…
Bonus Plans for Historic North Beach Building Progress
As we revealed at the end of last year, plans to raze everything but the pressed metal façade of the historic Delucchi Sheet Metal Works building at 1526 Powell Street…
Purchase Activity for New Homes in the U.S. Is Down
While mortgage application volumes to purchase a new home in the U.S. increased 10 percent from December to January with typical seasonality in play, application volumes were down 12.5 percent…
The Penthouse Fun Police Were Called
Purchased for $1.9 million in 2008 and listed for $3.25 million last year, but withdrawn from the market without a reported sale, the corner penthouse unit #804 atop 74 New…