San Francisco / Marin County Real Estate Blog

1383 6th Ave, in San Francisco had some serious upside. This is a trust sale 3 level fixer house in the middle of the block on 6th. It could easily use $200,000 if renovations but I think its still a deal. The seller is asking $869,000, but from the agent traffic at the property today I would say...

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April Sales Statistics (Condos/TICs/Co-ops/Lofts)   Prices Unit     Change from last year Change from last month   Median Average Sales DOM SP/LP Median Average Sales Median Average Sales San Francisco $720,000 $815,767 129 72 96.2% 10.9% 5.2% -5.8% 7.5% 9.2% -36.8% D1: Northwest $805,000 $814,6...

April Sales Statistics (Single-family Homes)   Prices Unit     Change from last year Change from last month   Median Average Sales DOM SP/LP Median Average Sales Median Average Sales San Francisco $788,750 $1,034,087 188 46 100.8% 11.1% 6.8% 34.3% -0.2% -7.1% -10.5% D1: Northwest $850,000 $1,237...

NEW STATE TAX CREDIT Just a reminder that the new state tax credit is not limitless, as was the Federal tax credit. The state tax credit is limited to $200,000,000 and is first-come, first-served. It went into effect on May 1, 2010 for first-time home buyers and buyers of new, never-occupied home...

Sales Price to List Price Ratio Back Over 100% The sales price to list price ratio for single-family, re-sale homes rose to 100.8% in April indicating that buyers are competing for the best homes on the market. Home sales were up 34.3% year-over-year. This is the tenth month in a row home sales h...

Pending home sales rose in February, potentially signaling a second surge of home sales in response to the home buyer tax credit, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in February, rose 8.2% to 97.6...

THE FED WITHDRAWS This week, the Federal Reserve ended a nearly 15-month-long, $1.25 trillion campaign of buying up mortgage-backed securities. The program's goal was to reduce borrowing costs for homebuyers. The Fed's efforts appear to have paid off. When the Fed announced its campaign in Novemb...

Complete monthly sales statistics for San Francisco are below. Monthly graphs are available for each district in the city by clicking the links to the left. March Sales Statistics (Single-family Homes)   Prices Unit     Change from last year Change from last month   Median         Average       S...

San Francisco Home Sales Up and Prices Down in 2009 The best that can be said about last year is it's over! Home sales were up 4.3% from 2008. The median price dropped 10.8% from 2008. The good news in all this is that prices bottomed out in the first quarter and started strengthening the last ni...