New Home Sales Activity Gains, Average Loan Size Slips
The mortgage application volume for new home purchases in the U.S. was up 19 percent on a year-over-year basis in January and the seasonally adjusted pace of sales, which had…
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The mortgage application volume for new home purchases in the U.S. was up 19 percent on a year-over-year basis in January and the seasonally adjusted pace of sales, which had…
As we outlined last week, prior to a market shock that appears to have caught some by surprise, the expected value of the Fed’s interest rate cuts this year was…
Purchased as an established TIC unit in a six-unit building for $910,000 in November of 2017, the light-filled, top floor one-bedroom unit #5 at 762-764 Cole Street returned to the…
At a time of the year when industry folks and the media have been known to conflate basic seasonal trends with a market rebound or “pivot!,” purchase mortgage application volume…
Purchased for $2,486,500 in December of 2018, the 1,400-square-foot unit #6C at 288 Pacific Avenue, a luxurious “modern oasis…ideally situated on the 6th floor of an architectural masterpiece,” with 24/7…
Having faced some pushback from Planning, related to the approved plans for up-zoning and infilling San Francisco’s Central SoMa District, the Fifth and Folsom Investors, LLC subsequently received a notice…
Having dropped back down to its lowest level in over a decade at the end of last year, mortgage credit availability inched up 0.7 percent last month, with a 1.9…
Landlords in San Francisco inked 260 legally recorded tenant buyout agreements last year, as mapped above, a 33 percent drop from the 389 inked in 2022 and 391 inked in…
As we outlined at the end of last year, plans for converting the landmarked Health Sciences Library building on the southeast corner of Sacramento and Webster into a 24-unit luxury…
In a move that shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the probability of a rate cut this quarter, based on movements in the futures market, has dropped to under…