Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inches Down to 2.96 Percent
Despite concerns that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s recent comments hinted at the need for the Fed to raise rates sooner rather than later, in order to keep the economy from…
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Despite concerns that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s recent comments hinted at the need for the Fed to raise rates sooner rather than later, in order to keep the economy from…
Having inched up a little under 2 percent at the end of the first quarter, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has since inched down a…
The net number of single-family homes and condos in contract across San Francisco dropped around 6 percent over the past week, representing the second straight week-over-week decline at a time…
As we outlined earlier this year: Purchased for $2.125 million in April of 2016, the “rarely available,” two-bedroom, two-bath condo #17E in the LUMINA tower at 338 Main Street was…
Having inched up 1 basis point over the past week to 2.98 percent, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage is hovering just under 3 percent for the second…
Having ticked up last week, which ended a four-week slide, mortgage loan application volumes in the U.S. have since slipped 2 percent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. At a…
Having inched up an upwardly revised 0.6 percent in January, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East…
With around 800 homes in contract across San Francisco, sales activity is not only up over 200 percent on a year-over-year basis, but around 60 percent higher than at the…
Despite some misreports in the media, apartment rents in San Francisco haven’t started to rebound, as we outlined last month. And in fact, the weighted average asking rent for an…
Having dropped 6.6 percent in February, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. dropped another 3.7 percent in March to an annual rate of 6.01 million sales,…