SF Luxury Home Sales Hit New Peak Neighborhood Snapshots: Noe & Eureka Valleys, South Beach & Yerba Buena, Richmond District, Bernal Heights & Sunset/Parkside November 2014 Update Adjusting your screen view to zoom 125% or 150% will make the charts easier to read. The San Francisco market definitely cooled after the overheated feeding frenzy of the first half of the …
Updated S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index for San Francisco Metro Area
The Case-Shiller Index for the San Francisco Metro Area covers the house markets of 5 Bay Area counties, divided into 3 price tiers, each constituting one third of unit sales. Most of the San Francisco’s and Marin’s house sales are in the “high price tier”, so that is where we focus most of our attention.” The Index is published 2 …
San Francisco Luxury Home Market
San Francisco Luxury Home Sales & Prices Continue to Climb Past Previous Peaks July 2014 Update by Paragon Real Estate Group With 7 Custom Charts & Tables The luxury segment of San Francisco’s real estate market was the last to … Continue reading
New Case-Shiller report: new jump in Bay Area home prices
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
Bay Area Home Purchase vs. S&P 500
We recently put together an analysis comparing the comparative investment returns of buying a San Francisco Bay Area house, gold, Apple stock, an S&P 500 Index fund or putting money into a bank CD in January 2012 (Of Real Estate, Gold & Apple Stock). Not unreasonably, the issue arose regarding returns over a longer term. Now, whatever time period is used will always be fundamentally arbitrary, and different periods will often generate dramatically different results. Twenty years is a round number, which allows a nice mix of recessions, bubbles, crashes and recoveries to be encompassed within our inquiry. Continue reading
New Case Shiller Index
The new February S&P Case-Shiller Index for high-price-tier homes in the 5-county San Francisco Metro Area increased almost 1% from the January reading. This puts the Index up about 20% over the past 12 months, and up about 34% since … 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