Pending Home Sales in S.F. Drop to a 19-Month Low
The net number of single-family homes and condos in contract across San Francisco dropped 17 percent over the past week, which represents a typical percentage drop based on typical seasonality…
Challenges for That 1,066-Foot-Tall Tower as Proposed
As we first outlined this past November: Engineered by Planning and adopted back in 2012, San Francisco’s Transit Center District Plan (TCDP) was designed to limit the number of tall…
Number of Homes on the Market in S.F. Starts Ticking Back Up
Despite some industry misanalysis making the rounds at the end of last year, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco has started ticking back up with typical…
New Cow Hollow Mansion Fetches a Record $32M
Built on a quarter-acre, triple-wide-plus view lot that was purchased for $14 million in February of 2016, the newly constructed, 12,200-square-foot Cow Hollow mansion at 2582 Filbert Street, “Residence 2582,”…
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Tower to Rise on Fire Station Site Closer to Reality
Having survived a rather ironic appeal, the plans the proposed 19-story tower to rise up to 200 feet in height on the site of San Francisco’s aging Fire Station 13…
Restored Mayor’s Mansion Quietly Sold at a Big Loss
As we outlined this past June: The storied Liberty Hill home at 3690 21st Street, which sits on a nearly 6,000-square-foot, camouflaged corner lot and was built as a party/guest…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Hits a 20-Month High
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 11 basis points (0.11 percentage points) over the past week to 3.22 percent, which is 55 basis points higher than…
Pages From the Down-Low Merger Playbook and Result(s)
Purchased as a little two-unit building at the peak of Potrero Hill for $720,000 in February of 2012, 882-888 Carolina Street was subsequently expanded and remodeled with permits for a…
Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Ended 2021 Down
Mortgage loan application volumes to purchase a home in the U.S. dropped 4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis over the last two weeks of 2021 and ended the year…
S.F. Will Soon Average Over 1,500 New COVID Cases Per Day
Based on our analysis of the City and County of San Francisco’s case data, the 7-day average number of daily new Covid-19 cases detected in San Francisco ticked over 1,000…