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Category: Oakland

San Francisco condos are the Bay Area’s weakest real estate market. So why aren’t home prices dropping more?

October 28, 2020

Kathleen Pender Oct. 27, 2020 Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 1:03 p.m.

San Francisco is the softest spot in the Bay Area’s mostly booming real estate market, […]Read more

Bay Area home buyers scoop up shrinking inventory at furious pace – SFChronicle.com

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

The Bay Area real estate market continued its roaring recovery in September, as buyers took advantage of ultra-low mortgage rates to scoop up a shrinking […]Read more

So you’re working remotely and want to move? Here are the questions you should ask.

September 23, 2020September 24, 2020

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business  
Wed. September 23, 2020

If you’ve been working from home for the past six months, you may be ready […]Read more

Moving out of California, even temporarily? Here’s what you need to know about taxes – 

September 9, 2020

by Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 5, 2020
Business groups have been pushing Congress for a decade to simplify how states tax nonresidents. They […]Read more

SF’s housing market is weakening as some suburbs see ‘crazy heated insanity’

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020

by Kathleen Pender, Aug. 17, 2020

The coronavirus continued reshaping the Bay Area housing market last month, as demand for homes was weakest in San […]Read more

Should you refinance your mortgage right now? 

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020

by Maurie Backman, The Motley Fool
 
Now may be a good time to refinance — but only if you plan to stay in your home […]Read more

Will Working From Home Spell Doom for the Open Floor Plan?

June 12, 2020

Lisa Johnson Mandell, provided by  

For those stuck working at home during the pandemic, we’ve seen the struggles. Lackluster lighting, bad backdrops, and subpar […]Read more

Bay Area’s dropping rents will reshape housing market – SFChronicle.com

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020

By J.K. Dineen   San Francisco Chronicle, June 9, 2020
 

The coronavirus pandemic is driving rents down in San Francisco and across the region, […]Read more

San Francisco & Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn: ‘Never seen anything like it’

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020

By J.K. Dineen,  San Francisco Chronicle
The cost of renting an apartment in the Bay Area plummeted in May, as layoffs and the increased flexibility […]Read more

Video tours? Suburbs? Coronavirus changes how and where we buy homes

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020

By Charisse JonesJessica Menton
USA TODAY

Jessica Chamorro’s dream of owning her first home was upended in March after she was furloughed from her catering […]Read more

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