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San Francisco’s rent riot
Prices are zooming in the Bay Area as startups hire and new techies flock to town. FORTUNE – Whether we’re living through another tech bubble remains hotly contested, but there’s no denying its impact on one market: rental apartments in … Continue reading
Market FOCUS: A Monthly Analysis of the San Francisco Real Estate Market
Pending Sales Rise, Improving Real Estate Market Outlook Despite losing some of its footing last month, the San Francisco housing market saw an increase in pending sales in 7 out of its 10 neighborhood districts compared to May of last … Continue reading
Home Prices Exploding in Silicon Valley Amid More Millionaires
Home Prices Exploding in Silicon Valley Amid More Millionaires By Dan Levy June 15 Bloomberg) — A surge in wealth from technology stock sales and initial public offerings is spilling into the Silicon Valley real estate market as newly rich … Continue reading
Ed Lee plans to pass tree costs to property owner
City officials say they don’t have enough money to adequately care for San Francisco’s thousands of street trees and that local property owners will have to pick up the bill. The cost-switching plan is part of Mayor Ed Lee’s $6.8 … Continue reading
Oyster Development takes on Mission district project in San Francisco
San Francisco Business Times Oyster Development Corp. has agreed to buy a site in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district and will revive a stalled — and contentious — plan to build housing and an entertainment center there. Oyster … Continue reading
Some Good Signs Appear in Commercial Real Estate
Jonathan Weber writes a column for The Bay Citizen The commercial property market is an interesting economic indicator, shedding light on the overall strength of a metro economy — which segments are doing the best, and what is valued the … Continue reading
How Long Will It Take For The Housing Market To Return To Normal?
At the recent Urban Land Institute (ULI) annual fall conference in Washington, D.C., the question on everyone’s mind was: “When will the real estate market see some normalcy?” Now that I’m back at the daily grind in San Francisco, I … Continue reading
Investors seeing farmland as safer bet than stocks Wary of fluctuations on Wall Street, more wealthy Americans, private funds and foreigners are putting money into parcels of cornfields, fruit orchards and other U.S. agricultural products.
By P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Kern County, Calif. — As investors tire of Wall Street’s roller coaster, more of them are plowing their money into land â farmland. Few people understand this shift better than farm manager … Continue reading
Real Estate Premium Near Record to U.S. Bonds Signals Time to Buy Property
By Hui-yong Yu, Bloomberg U.S. commercial real estate yields are near the highest level relative to Treasury bonds on record, a signal to some investors it’s time to buy property. Capitalization rates, a measure of real estate yields, averaged 7.22 percent … Continue reading
Capital Gains Tax Set to Rise at Year End; Transaction Activity May Edge Higher as Long-Term Owners Lock in Profits
The Research Brief blog by Marcus & Millichap With the Bush tax cuts set to expire on December 31, 2010, capital gains taxes will revert to 20 percent from their 70-plus-year low of 15 percent. In addition, barring legislative intervention, … Continue reading
