The new S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index for April 2014 came out today and it showed another bump in home prices for the 5-county San Francisco Metro Statistical Area. For homes in the upper tier of home values – as … Continue reading
Real estate cycles from another angle
Over the past 30+ years, the period between a recovery beginning and a major "market adjustment" (or bubble popping) has run 5 to 7 years. We are currently about 2.5 years into the current recovery. Continue reading
New Housing Construction Report
The charts included are mostly based on the San Francisco Planning Department’s excellent Housing Inventory and Pipeline reports, which can be accessed using the links at the bottom of this article. Quotes below are excerpted from these reports. Continue reading
Of San Francisco Real Estate Gold & Apple Stock
May 2014 Report On January 1, 2012, you woke up to find $200,000 on your bedside table, which you decided to invest. Then, on May 2, 2014, you sold your investment. Below are approximate returns depending on where you placed your cash. Continue reading
New Case-Shiller report: SF Metro Area bumps up again
While the nation as a whole saw a tiny decrease in the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price index in the January report released today, the San Francisco Metro Area Index (for 5 northern counties) bumped up again. The C-S Index for … Continue reading
New Case-Shiller Index Released
The November Case-Shiller Index report was released this week. Below are three looks at what has happened in Bay Area “high-tier-priced” houses (currently delineated as those selling for more than $801,000) since 2013 began, over the past 2 years – … Continue reading