Real Estate Week: Big Drop in Q3 Foreclosures and a Big Jump in Bay Area Rental Rates
News this week of interest to homebuyers, home sellers, and the home-curious: Foreclosures in the Bay Area were down 36 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier. Rents, however, marched the other way, with rental rates up 19 percent in Oakland and 7.6 percent in San Francisco.