theFrontSteps – San Francisco

So we’ve heard from Realtor Economists, we’ve heard from our Association of Realtors, and looky there! Now we get to hear what Zillow thinks the real estate market is doing! Fantastic! Have a look at San Francisco Home Values: – Now have a look at San Francisco Median Sales Price (Holy Crap Batman! It looks [...]

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 [...]

The data is in and it’s true, the grass is not greener in the ‘burbs, and yet another reason to get thee to the city. “A new report released today by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing finds that the average Bay Area household spends more than $41,000 a year – nearly 60 percent [...]

Misha Weidman is back and he brings us this little nugget (also posted on his site): …and this quote to go along with it: Until June 2008, condo and home prices were in lock-step in terms of price appreciation and decline. Thereafter, homes fell first and further. In March 2009, the delta between condos and [...]

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 [...]

Supply/Demand Single Family April 2009 v April 2008 Supply/Demand Condo April 2009 v April 2008 Supply/Demand Single Family & Condo April 2009 v April 2008 Sales Rate Single Family & Condo April 2009 v April 2008 Sales Rate Single Family April 2009 v April 2008 Sales Rate Condo April 2009 v April 2008 Median Price [...]

We’re feeding your addiction: -2 years, Supply Demand Single Family Residence San Francisco -2 years, Supply Demand Condo SF -2 years, Sales Rate SFR and Condo/Loft SF -2 years, Sales Rate SFR SF -2 years, Sales Rate Condo SF -2 years, Median Price SFR and Condo SF -2 years, Median Price, SFR SF -2 years, [...]

We asked, and Misha delivered: It is important to note, as Misha does: This chart, while it does illustrate something meaningful about the overall SF market, doesn’t tell you anything about values in any particular neighborhood. It lumps together data from neighborhoods as diverse as Hunter’s Point and Visitacion Valley in District 10, which has [...]

NUMBER OF UNITS is the equivalent of number of sales/transactions. For condominiums, each unit is treated as a sale. For 2- to 4-unit buildings, the “building” is treated as a sale. NUMBER SOLD is the number of properties in the market segment that closed escrow during the month. NUMBER FOR SALE is the number of [...]