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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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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

July 15, 2024

The number of single-family homes and condos in contract to be sold across San Francisco has dropped around 15 percent over the past month, including a 6 percent drop in…

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Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But…

July 12, 2024

As we outlined at the end of May, asking rents in San Francisco were actually trending up, having ticked up two months in a row. And having ticked up another…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down

July 11, 2024

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched down 6 basis points (0.06 percentage points) over the past week to 6.89 percent, which is 7 basis points lower than…

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Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year

July 10, 2024

Having ticked back over $2,300 at the end of May, the average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has since ticked up a percent to $2,360 a month but…

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Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale

July 8, 2024

Purchased for $4.65 million in February of 2015, the 2,820-square-foot, four-bedroom home at 50 Buena Vista Terrace, a fully-remodeled single-family home which “transcends expectations,” in “the highly coveted” Buena Vista…

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Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, YOY Gain Slows

July 1, 2024

Having ticked up 2.6 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area (i.e., “San Francisco,” which includes the East Bay,…

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Inventory Levels Hold, Asking Prices Drop in San Francisco [UPDATED]

June 25, 2024

The net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco was unchanged over the past week and remains 1 percent higher than at the same time…

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Drop in Labor Force Driving Unemployment Rates Down

June 21, 2024

Having dropped by 5,400 in April, the net number of San Francisco residents with a job dropped inched back up by 400 in May to 534,100 but was still down…

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Classic Lake District TIC Trades Down

June 20, 2024

Purchased for $1.450 million in August of 2019, the updated but not “white-boxed,” two-bedroom, two-bath Lake District unit at 4504 California Street returned to the market priced at $1.395 million…

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Amazing Mission District Loft Fetches Over $1K Per Foot! But…

June 18, 2024

Purchased for $1.15 million in March of 2020, which was the same price the top-floor Mission District loft fetched in August of 2017, as pictured below, the “amazing,” 949-square-foot unit…

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  1. Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    Thoughts and prayers, sir, thoughts and prayers.... Except he doesn't actually build housing, does he? he just buys up exiting…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    I have a finance bro cousin currently raising his first post friends and family round after he successfully sold his…

  3. Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    I'm confused as to what part of your (original) post you're trying to address; is it that the 30% would…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    If the hotels you're thinking of were the the Hilton Union Square (at 333 O'Farrell St) and Parc 55 hotel…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Redevelopment of “Junky” Nob Hill Theater Closer to Reality

    Three years after project approval and the owner decided to punt. From the San Francisco Standard's real estate reporter Emily…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    A friend of a friend that founded an E-commerce startup that he bootstrapped and scaled in San Francisco several years…

  7. The Chief (tm) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    Is this the same "Brookfield", with whatever number or layers of holding companies, etc., that punted on the Union Sq.…

  8. tipster on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    I have a friend who has started his next business after a successful exit from an earlier one he started…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    From the San Francisco Chronicle's Laura Waxmann, yesterday (S.F.'s newest office tower is mostly empty - and now changing ownership):…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Bay Area Employment and Labor Force Drop to Mid-2015 Levels

    Milkshake, I'm not as sanguine as you seem to be about prospects for the restoration of pre 2022 employment levels…

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