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A plugged-in reader plots the past ten years of S&P performance versus the composite* Case-Shiller Index. Currently up 11 percent year-over-year, the S&P 500 has fallen 13.6 percent since the…
The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index (“a forward-looking indicator”) fell 30 percent from April (110.9) to May (77.6). All seasonality and now stimulus aside, the index fell…
A sister development to the cater corner Broadway Family Apartments which received 8,500 applications for its 80 apartments in 2008, the proposed affordable housing development at 235 Broadway would replace…
Since the sale of CBS’s infamous “42 offer home” at 555 Edinburgh closed escrow in April of 2009 for “24 percent over asking” (and calling a “real estate rebound“), the…
While the more Spanish styled Mediterranean Villa at 299 Santa Paula Avenue remains on the market asking $4,950,000 (versus $5,900,000 a year ago), the more Tuscan styled Mediterranean villa down…
Kip and Nicole Macy (Pacific Heights The Sequel (Working Title: “Landlords Gone Wild!”)) have skipped town after posting a combined half-million dollar bail bond. They had both spent some time…
As we wrote about 1219 Lombard in May (a view from which is above): With some rather big views from the sitting area aside the top floor master suite, 1219…
We’re back below 10,000 as the Dow closed the day at 9,870 without any so called “fat fingers” (which were never really) to blame. The S&P closed the day down…
With the 1,058 square foot single-family Noe home at 489 Day selling at 3 percent under asking for $875,000 this past February, it’s probably safe to assume the 1,068 square…
According to the April 2010 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA rose 2.2% from March ’10 to April ’10, down 36.0% from a peak…