Housing affordability at “historic low” in Bay Area
Via Shutterstock If you’re not making $343,000 this year, reconsider buying a home in SF It’s technically, slightly more affordable to buy a home at prevailing prices in the Bay Area compared to this...
View ArticleNew shock: SF house price declines year over year again
Photo via Shutterstock The biggest drop this year The California Association of Realtors tabulated house sales across the Bay Area last week and found that, once again, prices overall dropped in July...
View ArticleBay Area home sales decline 12 months in a row
Via Shutterstock July’s sale inventory lowest since 2011 And that makes it a year. A slide in the number of homes sold across the Bay Area that began in July of 2018 stretched through its 12th...
View ArticleCensus says: San Francisco getting richer, more expensive by the year
Photo via Shutterstock Data for 2018 shows increase in rents, housing prices, home values, and median income This week, the U.S. Census Bureau released new data about San Francisco from its annual...
View ArticleSF housing bubble risk down, but still worrisome
Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images “Valuations have fallen sharply” The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) released its annual Global Real Estate Bubble Index Monday, ranking San Francisco as...
View ArticleHouses in Bayview and the Excelsior now average $1 million
Via ShutterstockThat’s still more than half a million dollars cheaper than the city at largeThe bad news is that even in Bayview and the Excelsior—the southern-lying neighborhoods that long spelled...
View ArticleThis tiny East Bay town is where home prices are inflating fastest
Bethel Island | Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty ImagesBethel Island is one of the most affordable places to find housing in the Bay Area—for nowReal estate site Property Shark...
View ArticleBay Area leads the nation in million-dollar homes
Home for sale in San Ramon. | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesA race not worth winning?The online loan marketplace Lending Tree calculated which U.S. cities have the most homes valued at $1...
View Article17 percent of SF millennials say they’ll never buy a home
Photo via ShutterstockCan you guess why?The SF-based rental site Apartment List conducted its annual survey of millennial renters this week and found that more young people in both San Francisco and...
View ArticleList of country’s most expensive ZIP codes reveals an out-of-control housing...
Via ShutterstockCalifornia makes up nearly the entire listThe real estate site Property Shark published its yearly list of the most expensive housing ZIP codes in the country this week. For the third...
View ArticleSF housing becoming more affordable, say realtors
Photo via ShutterstockAre they thinking of the same San Francisco?Most people won’t believe it: According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), buying a home in San Francisco and the greater...
View ArticleIt takes just 19 days on average for a San Francisco home to sell
Photo via ShutterstockStart the clockIn the past 12 months, a San Francisco home took on average just 19 days to sell. And in some of the city’s most in-demand neighborhoods, sales averaged only two...
View ArticleBay Area residents unhappy with region says every poll ever
Via ShutterstockPollsters have said San Franciscans are spoiling to leave—and now it’s more of the sameUpdate: Originally published in March of 2019, this story has been updated to reflect new polling...
View ArticleNumber of homes for sale in Bay Area plummet from 2018
Via ShutterstockIs this thing on?San Francisco and its surrounding counties are flush with employment, the housing supply is tight, so conventional economic wisdom has it that demand should drive...
View ArticleSF housing went on a rampage this past decade
Photo via ShutterstockJust as in the movies of old, science has created a monster in San Francisco: your mortgageIn the 1957 B-movie The Amazing Colossal Man, an explosion causes a once-ordinary guy to...
View ArticleOakland home values surge 261 percent in 20 years
Via ShutterstockThat’s a lotIf the average Bay Area resident placed bets on which city saw the most alarming and dramatic surge in home values in the past two decades—well, odds are nobody wants to...
View ArticleSF house sales slide, but condo selling surges
Via ShutterstockBecause why should 2019 start making sense now?As 2019 winds toward an end, the slightly weird year-long trend of declining Bay Area home sales compared to last year continues—except...
View ArticleTech IPOs didn’t destroy Bay Area housing after all
Photo via ShutterstockCome out of the bunkers, it’s safe nowThe Bay Area braced itself in 2019 for a tsunami of tech cash that seemed poised to sweep away the region as we know it, but now it seems...
View ArticleOne of the best cities for millennial homebuyers in the U.S. is Hayward
Photo via ShutterstockBut the pickings are getting slimmer as years go byIf you’re a millennial (i.e., anyone born between 1981 and 1996) looking to buy a home in the Bay Area, a great place to get a...
View ArticleHere are the Bay Area cities where people stay the longest
Daly City. | Photo via ShutterstockPeople love to grow old in Daly City and BerkeleyIf it seems like nothing is the same in the Bay Area anymore, technically you’re wrong. In many neighborhoods, you’re...
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