San Francisco's Housing Market Faces Challenges Amidst Overall Strength

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San Francisco's Housing Market Faces Challenges Amidst Overall Strength
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In parts of San Francisco, the housing market is in dire straits. Prices have risen by 3% from a trough reached earlier this year. Property in swankier parts of town fetches well above asking price. Figures suggest that global house prices rose by 1.3% between the first and second quarters of 2023.

In parts of San Francisco , the housing market is in dire straits. Consider the example of one swish apartment close to City Hall, with quartz countertops and a rooftop deck, which in 2019 sold for $1.25m. Not today. After the chaos of the covid-19 pandemic, City Hall now overlooks the locus of the city’s drug problems. Biblical scenes of lawlessness and human suffering play out every night. The flat is now listed for $769,000—and is yet to sell.

Away from its troubled districts, though, San Francisco’s housing market is once again robust. Prices have risen by 3% from a trough reached earlier this year. Property in swankier parts of town fetches well above asking price. In nearby San Jose, in Silicon Valley, house prices are up by 8% from the trough. The story is similar across the rich world: pockets of weakness, but surprising overall strength. Figures from the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve suggest that global house prices rose by 1.3% between the first and second quarters of 2023. Estimates for more recent months point to a further rise (see chart

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