Blog | Julie Peisner - Part 4

San Francisco’s Hottest, Most Competitive Neighborhood Market

10/6/2016Since the market recovery began in 2012, various districts have taken the lead as the hottest markets in San Francisco: The affluent and prestigious Noe-Eureka-Cole...

Heading into the Autumn Selling Season

09/9/20162015 to 2016 YTD, the overall median price for condos, which now comprise the majority of home sales in the city, remained exactly the same...

Income, Affluence, Poverty & the Cost of Housing: Housing Affordability in the San Francisco Bay Area

08/16/2016The California Association of Realtors just released its Housing Affordability Index (HAI) for the 2nd quarter of 2016, which measures the percentage of households that...

Bay Area Real Estate & Demographics

08/3/2016While waiting for the autumn market to begin, we thought we would step back and look at the Bay Area from a variety of angles....

Home Value Tables by San Francisco Neighborhood

07/26/2016These tables report median sales prices and average dollar per square foot values, along with average home size and units sold, by property type and...

San Francisco Bay Area Apartment Building Market

07/18/2016Financial markets worldwide have seen dramatic volatility in this past 12 months, the Bay Area economy and new hiring have cooled, and the San Francisco...

A Soft Landing after 4 Years of Market Frenzy?

07/8/2016San Francisco Median Sales Prices by Quarter Since median sales prices fluctuate so much by season, the most useful metric is year over year, i.e....

Significant Changes in San Francisco & Bay Area Employment Trends

06/24/2016Analyzing new data (preliminary May numbers) from the CA Employment Development Department indicates a significant shift in Bay Area employment numbers. As seen in the...

Wealth, Employment, Demand, Inventory, Affordability and San Francisco Home Prices

06/6/2016Two of the biggest drivers of local real estate demand in recent years have been increasing employment and new wealth creation, both of which exploded...

San Francisco New Housing Construction & Inventory Trends

06/1/2016Many of the charts included below are based on the San Francisco Planning Department’s excellent 75-page 2015 Housing Inventory report, released on May 27, 2016,...

Midway through the Spring 2016 Selling Season

05/10/2016San Francisco Median Home Price Appreciation Short-Term & Long-Term Trends As seen in the first chart below, the combined house-condo median sales price hit a...

The San Francisco Luxury Home Market | Homes of $2 Million & Above

05/6/2016The bar charts compare year-over-year data, going back 2 years, for the latest month. The line charts track monthly data over a period of 3...