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  • The Story behind San Francisco’s “Extremely Low Inventory” (It’s not because no one is selling)

    Friday, April 10th, 2015

    First some context: For the last 15 years, the number of MLS home sales in San Francisco has ranged from 4663 in 2009 to 7887 in 2004, with an average of 6115 per year. In 2014, MLS sales numbered 6120. Sales outside of MLS have increased as the market has become hotter (for both legitimate […]

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  • First Quarter 2015 Update: The San Francisco Real Estate Market

    Friday, April 10th, 2015

    San Francisco Home Value Appreciation The chart above illustrates the continued march upward of median home sales prices in San Francisco. However, if we separate out house from condo sales, an interesting trend appears: The median house sales price basically stayed flat from Q4 2014 to Q1 2015, but the median condo sales price jumped […]

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  • Taking the Temperatures of Bay Area Real Estate Markets

    Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

    Across the Bay Area, how many listings sell without price reductions, how quickly do they sell, and at what percentage of asking price? What role does employment play in the real estate market? Which are the biggest and smallest county markets, and how do prices and rents compare? The white-hot – some would say overheated […]

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  • San Francisco Farmers’ Markets

    Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

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  • 10 Factors Behind the San Francisco Real Estate Market [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Saturday, March 14th, 2015

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  • Another Feverish Spring Market? March 2015 Report

    Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

    Overbidding & Inventory; Bay Area Home Price Map; Renting vs. Buying; Different Markets = Different Bubbles, Crashes & Recoveries Preliminary statistics and, even more so, indications on the ground in the current hurly burly of deal-making are sending strong signals of another very competitive real estate market in San Francisco as we approach spring. If […]

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  • From our NorCal network : The Artisan Group

    Saturday, March 7th, 2015

    11769 Tundra Drive Truckee, NV 96161 Offered at $1,080,000

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  • Renting vs Buying a Home in San Francisco

    Friday, February 27th, 2015

    “Renting can make sense as a lifestyle choice or because of income constraints. As a means to building wealth, however, there is no practical substitute for homeownership.” New York Times, “Homeownership & Affluence,” 11/30/14 op-ed article Please Note: Rent vs. buy calculations can be performed a wide variety of ways, and results will depend on […]

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  • Updated S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index for San Francisco Metro Area

    Thursday, February 26th, 2015

    The 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 the San Francisco’s and Marin’s house sales are in the “high price tier”, so that is where we focus most of our attention.” […]

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  • SoMa-South Beach-Yerba Buena-Mission Bay

    Friday, February 20th, 2015

    Many more condos are sold in the South Beach/ Yerba Buena/ South of Market (SoMa)/ Mission Bay neighborhoods of San Francisco than any other area of the city, and since new construction is surging here, that trajectory will only continue. The market here is quite hot pursuant to the same trends as the city as […]

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