Hard on the heels of my last post that covered sky-rocketing home prices and rents comes yesterday’s front-page New York Times article on how San Francisco is at the epicenter of the new social networking/media boom. Continue reading “Social Media Boom Fuels San Francisco’s Rental and Home Sales Market”
A couple of months ago (gasp!) I promised to post my favorite charts from the UC Berkeley Fisher School of Real Estate and Urban Economics’ symposium on the state of the market. I then got swamped working on my own development project up in Windsor, north of Santa Rosa, and all my blogging came to a halt. Without further ado, here are a few of my favorite charts from the conference. In most cases, I’ll let them speak for themselves.
As promised, here are a few tidbits from Leslie Appleton-Young’s presentation to the conference sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Fisher School of Real Estate and Urban Economics. Ms. A-Y is the California Association of Realtors’ Chief Economist.
Most of the data covers the state as a whole, and even when it’s broken down by county, Ms. A-Y stressed that there can be huge differences when you get more “granular” with the details. (I made the same point in my 10/27 post discussing how misleading the much-quoted Case Shiller Index can be.)
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