Monthly Archives: October 2020

San Francisco condos are the Bay Area’s weakest real estate market. So why aren’t home prices dropping more?

San Francisco is the softest spot in the Bay Area’s mostly booming real estate market, and its condo segment is weakest of all. Inventory has been growing faster than sales, and price reductions — mostly in the condo segment — … Continue reading

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Bay Area rents keep plummeting, especially in S.F. — the latest data by city

Housing rents continue to decline in the Bay Area amid the coronavirus pandemic, especially in San Francisco, which has notoriously had the country’s highest rental prices after overtaking New York City years ago. According to the most recent reports from … Continue reading

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Big real estate escapes $360 million in annual SF taxes | 48 hills

The research on this story was supported by a grant from the San Francisco Foundation. Interactive map was built by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Original photos by Elissa Mann. The Bank of America Building is a San Francisco landmark. For … Continue reading

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San Francisco Rents Just Dropped Even More

Having slipped under $3,600 in August, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has just dropped to under $3,400 a month, which is down nearly 6 percent over the past month alone (having dropped closer to … Continue reading

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Condo Boom Turns to Historic Condo Glut in San Francisco

There is a “housing shortage” and an “inventory shortage” until there suddenly isn’t. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. In San Francisco, the erstwhile housing “shortage” and inventory “shortage,” hyped to the nth degree by the industry, has now turned into a historic … Continue reading

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