May 05, 2016
Below is a look at the past 30+ years of San Francisco Bay Area real estate boom and bust cycles. Financial-market cycles have been around for hundreds of years, all the way back to the Dutch tulip mania of the 1600’s. While future cycles will vary in their details, the causes, effects and trend lines […]
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View DetailsApril 22, 2016
The SF Planning Department just released updated Q4 2015 information regarding the new-housing development pipeline. San Francisco is in the midst of one of its biggest new-housing construction booms in history. (The same is occurring on the commercial development side, but this report won’t deal with that.) Indeed, it often seems that new projects of […]
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View DetailsApril 11, 2016
In the first quarter of 2016, various market segments in the city began to trend in significantly different directions. Houses, especially those below $2 million, are still often selling in a frenzy of bidding: Recent reports of houses selling with 5, 10 or more competing offers are not uncommon, especially in neighborhoods considered more affordable […]
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View DetailsApril 10, 2016
The S&P Case-Shiller Index for the San Francisco Metro Area covers the house markets of 5 Bay Area counties, divided into 3 price tiers, each constituting one third of unit sales. Most of San Francisco’s, Marin’s and Central Contra Costa’s house sales are in the “high price tier”, so that is where we focus most […]
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View DetailsMarch 25, 2016
A selection of charts looking a various angles of current economic trends in the United States and San Francisco. For the past 50 years, the San Francisco and Bay Area housing markets have only “crashed” in tandem with a large, national, negative macro-economic event. Which is why it’s useful to look at important U.S. trends […]
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View DetailsMarch 12, 2016
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View DetailsMarch 09, 2016
Monthly and seasonal fluctuations in median sales prices are quite normal and do not necessarily say much about changes in fair market values. For that one must look at longer-term trends. However, for what it is worth, the median price in February was the highest since it peaked in May of 2015. If this spring […]
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View DetailsMarch 04, 2016
The SF Planning Department just released updated information regarding the new-housing development pipeline. San Francisco is in the midst of one of its biggest new-housing construction booms in history. (The same is occurring on the commercial development side, but this report won’t deal with that.) Indeed, it often seems that new projects of one kind […]
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View DetailsFebruary 16, 2016
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View DetailsFebruary 12, 2016
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Categories: Market Statistics | Comments Off on The San Francisco Real Estate Market 2015 Highlights
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