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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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East Bay Office Vacancy Rate Inches Up, But…

April 12, 2024

With the office vacancy rate in San Francisco having ticked over 33 percent last month, the effective office vacancy rate in the East Bay, not including Walnut Creek or further…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Price Cut(s) for Broadway Mansion on a Prime Flat Block

April 11, 2024

The remodeled Pacific Heights mansion at 2480 Broadway, a prime five-bedroom home with panoramic bay views and a rather awesome roof deck, on a coveted flat block of Broadway, quietly…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Back Near 7 Percent

April 11, 2024

Following a trend that shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the average rate for a benchmark 30 year mortgage ticked up another 6 basis points (0.06 percentage points) over…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods Trends

Mid-Market Two-Bedroom Resells for Nearly 50 Percent Less

April 10, 2024

Purchased for $1,250,000 in mid-2019, at which point it established a building and neighborhood comp for other sales at $1,437 per square foot, the two-bedroom, two-bath unit #513 with two…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Purchase Mortgage Activity Drops, Rates on the Rise

April 10, 2024

Having inched up a percent at the end of last month, purchase mortgage application volume in the U.S. dropped 5 percent in the absolute over the past week and 4…

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Price Cut(s) for A Great South Beach Investment

April 9, 2024

Purchased as “a great investment” for $608,000 in March of 2021, which was actually $31,000 under asking at the time, the 493-square-foot, junior one-bedroom Portside II unit #505N at 403…

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Awesome View Home Fetches Twice Its 2016 Price! But…

April 8, 2024

“Perched majestically atop Golden Gate Heights” on a 6,365-square-foot, park-like lot, the designer five-bedroom home with a detached guest cottage at 565 Ortega Street returned to the market priced at…

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Over 40 Percent More Homes on the Market than Average in S.F.

April 8, 2024

As we projected, the number of condos and single-family homes on the market in San Francisco (i.e., inventory) ticked up another 5 percent over the past week and continues to…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Trends

A Fast 230K Over Asking Sale in The Mission!

April 5, 2024

Listed for $995,000 three weeks ago, the 990-square-foot, one-bedroom penthouse unit #308 atop the “premier…residential building” at 3500 Nineteenth Street, with high-end finishes, panoramic views, and a private wrap around…

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Expected Value of Rate Cuts Drops

April 5, 2024

As we first outlined early last month, based on an analysis of the futures market for interest rate products, the expected value of the Fed’s rate cuts was suggesting there…

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Recent Reader Activity
  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

    152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market

    Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced

    Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

    Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…

  7. steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Probably won't meaningfully decrease the amount of office space on the market. Google is pulling out of it's lease at…

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