Market Updates

Yesterday Jerome Powell indicated that due to reports of a higher level of economic activity than expected, the Fed funds rate may go higher faster ...

Mortgage rates went down at the end of 2022 - albeit briefly - and home sales jumped as a result.  This is an indicator that it is not ...

Builder confidence went up by the most in a single month in almost a decade (easy, biscuit - that's because it has been down so much).  ...

The biggest challenge the housing market’s facing is how few homes there are for sale. Mark Fleming, Chief Economist at First ...

Core inflation has been easing rapidly in response to supply chain repair and the Fed Funds rate increase.  It has fallen 3/10ths of a percent ...

The housing market has gone through a lot of change recently, and much of that was a result of how quickly mortgage rates rose last year....

If you've been following mortgage interest rates of late, it's been a bumpy night.  Up one week, down the next, then up again.  Overall, ...

Every so often we get a panicked call or email thinking that the once-in-a-hundred year problem we had in 2008 was repeating itself.  Rest ...

The Case-Shiller home price index - long one of my favorites due to its exacting methodology - shows about a 5% drop in SF metro prices since ...

The rate for a 30-year mortgage went down another 4 basis points this past week to 6.27 percent despite the recent Fed action to raise overnight ...

Ok, turn out the lights.  The party is officially over.  We have had quite a run for the past few years.  But it's over. No, it's not ...

< SF HOMES WITH PRICE REDUCTIONS OF AT LEAST 10% EAST BAY HOMES WITH PRICE REDUCTIONS OF AT LEAST 10% NORTH BAY HOMES WITH PRICE REDUCTIONS OF AT ...

Depending on what bar you're in and how many drinks the real estate agent next to you has had the forecast for price drops in San Francisco seems ...

Both headline (which includes the very volatile food and energy sectors) and core (which excludes those sectors) dropped by 0.6% in November.  ...

Lots of predictions out there for values and housing in 2023.  These are the ones I've found that seem to make the most sense: Home prices won't ...

FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 12/10/22: Wholesale prices in the United States rose 7.4% in November from a year earlier, a fifth straight ...

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