theFrontSteps – San Francisco

“After hitting a two year low in January, the median price for single-family re-sale homes rose 18.6% in March from February. Year-over-year, the median price was off for the seventh month in a row, falling 3.1%. After falling to their lowest level since January 2009 in February, home sales bounced back last month, which is [...]

Been wondering about the year over year stats for San Francisco’s real estate market when looking at August? Wonder no more. Single Family Home Stats San Francisco for August: Condominium Stats San Francisco for August: 2-4 Unit Stats San Francisco for August:

From a reader in the comments: I looked at the MLS sales volume and median sales prices year over year today, and sales volume is up about 38% for SFRs and condo/TICs, from 1354 in 2009 to 1875 in 2010. Median price is also up across just about all price tiers I looked at, which [...]

Thanks again to Misha Weidman for the graph. As you can see our market clearly tanked, and bounced, then tanked, and bounced again, but all-in-all it’s hanging in there pretty well. So what is next? ‘Tis a roller coaster ride indeed!

From the source: The San Francisco housing market continued to show promising signs of recovery through October 2009. Pending single family home sales jumped to 271 homes in October 2009, which represents a 30% increase in the number of pending sales month over month and a 58% increase year over year. Although greater scrutiny in [...]

Answering the oh so common question in San Francisco real estate, “How much more valuable is a Condo than a TIC (Tenancy In Common)”, RealDataSF.com takes us there in a chart: [Update: If you saw a chart before that was different than this one...that was the wrong one. This is correct.] [Update 2: From "Garrett" [...]

[Source and more commentary: Misha's Musings]

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We’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to run comparable property reports for homeowners looking to reduce their property taxes, and having to fight an uphill battle against the city proving their case that our market has, in fact, declined on more levels than one. Here is a little bit of information for San [...]

From the author of these graphs: The monthly sales data for Subdistrict 5E (Cole Valley/Parnassus/Ashbury Heights) is so low that running percentage declines off of median values, as I did for Noe Valley, would have been worthless. As several of your readers and I myself pointed out, it’s hard to draw conclusions when there are [...]