Stock market rattles Bay Area real estate

Typically the Bay Area real estate market heats up in March, which is known to be the traditional launch of the spring season. Much of it relates to local culture: buyers do goal ... Read More

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A wave of luxury home sales in SF

By Jennifer Gottlieb-Shetrit

The year has kicked off with a flurry of luxury home sales in San Francisco, with January and February 2025 seeing an unusually high volume of these transactions. Many properties ... Read More

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A recap of San Francisco’s 2024 real estate market and a look ahead

By Jennifer Gottlieb-Shetrit

The San Francisco real estate market experienced a mix of highs and lows throughout 2024, with moments of progress and setbacks. National and local elections rattled the fall, fue... Read More

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How about some good news for a change?

By Garey De Martini

San Francisco finally experienced a post-pandemic October where residential real estate sales began to come alive. According to a recent report published by the San Francisco Busi... Read More

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Now what?

By Garey De Martini

This is the week most Americans have anticipated with dread and apprehension. The election takes place on the 5th, and if the polls are correct, at least half the country is going... Read More

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A market with lots of moving parts

By Garey De Martini

The arrival of October means there are only a few weeks remaining in this year’s fall selling season. Historically, home sales have tended to slow towards the middle and end of ... Read More

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What’s coming in the near future

By Garey De Martini

Most experts seem to agree that the Federal Reserve will finally reduce interest rates this month. It’s been a long time coming, because most experts also believed that earlier ... Read More

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San Francisco is the worst place to be a real estate agent

By Garey De Martini

New research has found that San Francisco is the worst place to be a real estate agent in the United States. According to Alyssa Evans, a public relation strategist with Clever Re... Read More

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Not Quite ‘Impossibly Unaffordable’

By Garey De Martini

San Francisco was just ranked among the top 10 most “impossibly unaffordable” cities in the world, according to a recent CNN report. It wasn’t the planet’s most unaffordab... Read More

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It’s a numbers game

By Garey De Martini

In San Francisco, the three-month rolling median sale price for homes in April was $1,725,000, up nearly 10% year-over-year, according to Ted Andersen with the San Francisco Busin... Read More

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Home prices are climbing again

By Garey De Martini

My recent column mentioned that given current conditions, San Francisco’s real estate market may at any time take one step forward, and two steps back, or vice versa. It appears... Read More

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Real estate rebound: not quite so fast

By Garey De Martini

Earlier in the year expectations were high that a real estate rebound was imminent. Inflation looked licked, the Fed was optimistic, sellers were preparing to put their houses on ... Read More

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Optimistic outlook for San Francisco’s real estate market

By Garey De Martini

By all accounts, 2023 was a difficult year for San Francisco real estate. Mortgage rates were incredibly high, and inventory was terribly low. Buyer interest seemed to evaporate. ... Read More

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Call it a holding pattern for the time being

By Garey De Martini

Traditionally residential real estate sales slow down over the winter months, and the market doesn’t really come to life until well after the Super Bowl. This year, the rebound ... Read More

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The new year may bring new life

By Garey De Martini

In mid-December the real estate market received an early Christmas gift. The Fed held interest rates steady at its Dec. 13 meeting. What’s more, the Fed also forecast that it’... Read More

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