San Francisco Marin County Real Estate Blog

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...

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Apr. 2, 2010 -- Mortgage rates skyrocketed this week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage soared 12 basis points this week, to 5.23%, according to the Bankrate.com national survey of large lenders. A year ago, the mortgage index was 5.13%; four weeks ago, it was 5.12%. The benchmark 15-year fixed-rat...

A new state tax credit goes into effect on May 1, 2010 for first-time home buyers and buyers of new, never-occupied homes. The state has allocated a total of $200,000,000 to be split evenly between both groups. The tax credit applies to escrows that close on or after May 1, 2010. and before Janua...

Sales of single-family, re-sale homes were up 87.5% from February. Year-over-year, home sales were up 66.7%. This is the ninth month in a row home sales have been higher than the year before. The median price for homes gained 13.5% from February, and was up 14,5% year-over-year. Sales of lofts/co...