Monthly Archives: January 2020

As 2019 winds toward an end, the slightly weird year-long trend of declining Bay Area home sales compared to last year continues—except when it comes to the condo market, where it seems that demand is soaring compared to 2018. That … Continue reading →

Within just two short years, Compass has grown to be the largest residential real estate brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area. After purchasing Paragon Real Estate Group and Pacific Union International in San Francisco in 2018, Compass needed a … Continue reading →

Prop E will put new pressure on what Elberling describes as the Bay Area’s “growth industry.” Under the new dispensation, developers as well as other sectors that derive benefits from growth will have a strong incentive to make sure that … Continue reading →

If any city besides San Francisco is the unwilling poster child of the Bay Area housing crisis, it’s Palo Alto, the bucolic Peninsula town with fewer than 67,000 people in the cold heart of Silicon Valley. Not just because of … Continue reading →

The 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 that this most recent year in housing was mostly a wash. … Continue reading →