San Francisco Real Estate Market Update for 1/29 - 2/4/07
Read what Rick Turley, new President of Coldwell Banker, San Francisco/Peninsula said in his latest weekly report:Last weekend’s Super Bowl seemed to have little or no impact on the more than 350 Open Homes our agents provided throughout the San Francisco Bay region. Reports of 148 attendees on a North Bay listing, and over 300 for the weekend at a Menlo Park Open House were not met with surprise. In densely populated areas such as San Francisco’s Noe Valley, it was back to the old days of cars double parked up and down the narrow streets as Buyers scrambled to see the few new listings introduced to the market this past week.
It’s perfectly clear that what’s “not right” with this current market is not enough inventory. We are hearing the same lament in all our offices – from Palo Alto in the South to the Marina District of San Francisco in the North. It appears our offices in North Bay and East Bay share the same concerns. Of the offices that reported declining sales this week, it seems they are the same offices reporting decreasing inventory. You can’t sell it if you don’t have it.
Multiple offers are ruling the day again. Consider our Woodside office, perhaps harder hit in the “adjusting” market of 2006 due to the price point of their inventory. This week they reported 8 sales, of which 50% were in multiple offers. Six months ago it seemed Woodside was very far away from multiple offers being the norm again anytime soon. Burlingame reported multiple offers this week from the $700K price point to a recent listing they introduced at $3M. San Francisco agents are back to asking what the “offer date” is of a new listing, where it’s plain to see that nearly 50% of all sales are going into multiple offers in the City. It’s too soon to see if this is a “blip” or a trend – but in the meanwhile, the best Valentine’s present any Bay Area homebuyer could receive would be for more Sellers to get their homes on the market.
- Rick Turley
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