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SAN FRANCISCO MEDIAN HOME PRICE MAP – COMPASS Updated March 2020: This map generally reflects median home sales prices in San Francisco neighborhoods for the 12-month period through mid-March 2020 (i.e. before the coronavirus could impact sales prices). Median sales prices are generalities that often......
Recessions, Recoveries, Booms, Bubbles & Adjustments (Sometimes Crashes) 30+ Years of Housing Market Cycles in the San Francisco Bay Area by Patrick Carlisle, chief market analyst, SF Bay Area, Compass Below is a look at the past 30+ years of San Francisco Bay Area......
Seasonality & Bay Area Real Estate Markets A Compass Special Report Seasonality typically plays an enormous role in the ebb and flow of supply and demand within real estate markets. Below we look at seasonality from virtually every angle we can think of to illustrate......
San Francisco Real Estate Home Sales Surge at End of 2020. High Demand Gets 2021 Off to Heated Start. February 2021 Housing Market Report Our January report focused mostly on 2020’s annual statistics. This report will put most of its attention on quarterly and monthly......
2020 San Francisco Housing Market Overview January 2021 Pandemic, shelter in place, mass unemployment, terrible financial hardships for many households and small businesses, new ways of working, office buildings empty, people move, rents plunge, dreadful fires, an anxious presidential election, interest rates to historic......
San Francisco Real Estate A Strange Year Begins Winding Down December 2020 Though the pandemic upended many normal seasonal trends this year, the market did begin its typical “holiday season” slowdown in November – however activity remained well above levels of last year. It......
San Francisco Real Estate House & Condo Market Dynamics Dramatically Diverge November 2020 SF house and condo markets have been affected differently by the pandemic. This report attempts a deeper dive into the data across the city and within different city districts. The market......
San Francisco Real Estate Market 7 Months after the Pandemic Struck October 2020 The table below compares Q3 statistics across 5 years. Since the dynamics of the SF house and condo markets have significantly diverged since the pandemic struck – the condo market has......
San Francisco Real Estate Market September 2020 Despite the terrible fires, SF had a very active month in listings going into contract in August, hitting a high point for the year and matching the high points of recent years. Surprisingly, the fires did not......
San Francisco Real Estate Market Mixed Indicators August 2020 As illustrated below, the San Francisco market currently reflects a variety of both positive and negative indicators. Among Bay Area markets, the city is seeing the softest recovery from the initial shelter-in-place plunge in activity......
San Francisco Real Estate Market Rebounds Dramatically Median house sales price hits new monthly high July 2020 report Despite the ongoing health and economic crisis precipitated by COVID-19, the SF real estate market made a large recovery from the steep declines in March and......
San Francisco Real Estate Spring 2020 Report Supply & demand statistics, median sales price trends, sales and values by city district, the luxury home market, and the ongoing effects of COVID-19 June 2020 Generally speaking, market activity – as measured by the number of......
San Francisco Real Estate Market Begins to Bounce Back – Slowly May 2020 Crisis Update Market activity begins to tick up after severe shelter-in-place plunge. Median home sales prices are up. Interest rates hit new low. —————————————————– Shelter-in-place caused steep drops in activity......
San Francisco Real Estate & the Coronavirus Effects on Market Supply & Demand Dynamics April 2020 Report Note that there is a time lag – usually 3 to 6+ weeks – between a new listing coming on market, an offer being negotiated and......
San Francisco Real Estate March 2020 Report There is a lot going on in the world right now and we won’t pretend to know how things will turn out or affect the local real estate market over the next few months. In the meantime, this......
San Francisco Real Estate Home Sales Surge at End of 2020. High Demand Gets 2021 Off to Heated Start. February 2021 Housing Market Report Our January report...
2020 San Francisco Housing Market Overview January 2021 Pandemic, shelter in place, mass unemployment, terrible financial hardships for many households and small businesses, new ways...
San Francisco Real Estate A Strange Year Begins Winding Down December 2020 Though the pandemic upended many normal seasonal trends this year, the market did begin...
San Francisco Real Estate House & Condo Market Dynamics Dramatically Diverge November 2020 SF house and condo markets have been affected differently by the pandemic. This report...
San Francisco Real Estate Market 7 Months after the Pandemic Struck October 2020 The table below compares Q3 statistics across 5 years. Since the dynamics of...
San Francisco Real Estate Market September 2020 Despite the terrible fires, SF had a very active month in listings going into contract in August, hitting...
San Francisco Real Estate Market Mixed Indicators August 2020 As illustrated below, the San Francisco market currently reflects a variety of both positive and negative indicators....
San Francisco Real Estate Market Rebounds Dramatically Median house sales price hits new monthly high July 2020 report Despite the ongoing health and economic crisis precipitated by...
San Francisco Real Estate Spring 2020 Report Supply & demand statistics, median sales price trends, sales and values by city district, the luxury home market,...
San Francisco Real Estate Market Begins to Bounce Back - Slowly May 2020 Crisis Update Market activity begins to tick up after severe shelter-in-place plunge....