Monthly Archives: July 2013

San Francisco parking spot sells for $82000

(AP) SAN FRANCISCO – Parking spots apparently aren’t immune from the recent surge in San Francisco real estate prices. A spot in the city’s trendy South Beach neighborhood sold last week for $82,000, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Thursday … Continue reading

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Fast rising mortgage rates are dire for housing

Hanson is predicting a 19 percent jump in contract cancelations for the home builders for sales made between December 2012 and June of this year. That is because 70 percent of homes sold in that time were not built yet, … Continue reading

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Labor, Inequality and Transportation in the Bay Area

The strike that shuttered BART for four and a half days last week puts the Bay Area’s largest transit system once again at the center of a public debate over the region’s future. The crux of the discussion is labor … Continue reading

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Foreclosures fall even as judges ramp up

U.S. foreclosure activity in June fell to the lowest level since December of 2006, but certain states are seeing a rise in activity, as judges work through tremendous backlogs of delinquent loans. Close to 128,000 properties received some kind of … Continue reading

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America’s Cup sends rentals into the stratosphere

Would you pay $18K a month to rent this place, because it has a view of the Bay and thus the race action? Share this gallery: 1 of 11  Share this gallery: 1 of 11  Share this gallery: 1 of 11  Share this gallery: 1 of 11  Share this gallery: 1 of 11  Share this … Continue reading

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