California’s low homeownership rate to continue
California’s homeownership rate ballooned during the Millennium Boom, but quickly fell to today’s low level of 55%.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Aug 15, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Home Sales, Market Watch, Real Estate | 3
California’s homeownership rate ballooned during the Millennium Boom, but quickly fell to today’s low level of 55%.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Aug 15, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate | 20
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Aug 8, 2025 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Investment, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0
The bullish market following the 2020 recession reversed track in 2022 and has fully collapsed — now the commercial market is nowhere near finding a bottom in tenant demand and vacancies.
Read Moreby Robin Jennings | Aug 5, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Feature Articles, Real Estate | 0
Brokers who watch the jobs numbers along with the LFP rate will find the trends useful for forecasting their future brokerage conditions
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jul 28, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Real Estate | 1
California’s homeownership rate dropped even as the typical age of first-time homebuyers rose.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jul 15, 2025 | Economics, Feature Articles, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 0
Learn how the Fed is using their benchmark rate as a monetary policy tool
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jul 2, 2025 | Economics, Home Sales, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
Planning for the next several years in real estate transactions will require patience and a very different approach to the past decade of recovery economics driven by rate decreases.
Read Moreby Lily Hart | May 22, 2025 | Economics, Feature Articles, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0
What are the consequences of delinquency in pandemic-era forbearance arrangements?
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | May 14, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Real Estate | 13
Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | May 2, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Home Sales, Market Watch, Real Estate | 0
Over the last few decades, savings has followed a path conversely proportionate to consumer confidence.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Apr 23, 2025 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0
SoCal’s commercial real estate market on entering 2025 is fully destabilized with industrial vacancy rates elevated across all SoCal markets and office vacancy rates even higher.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Feb 7, 2025 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0
Commercial vacancy rates rose after 2023 and continue to rise in Southern California. While increasing vacancies cut into rental income and leasing fees, the absorption rate is worsening and shifting the source of leasing fees. Regions with the highest vacancy rates see the most occupancy of vacant space.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 21, 2025 | Economics, Finance, Real Estate, Tax | 0
Real estate agents negotiating a transaction advise clients on tax consequences
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Jan 16, 2025 | Economics, Fundamentals, Real Estate | 1
California zoning laws which prohibit high-density infill development and instead incentivize horizontal expansion of suburbs increase the risk of loss to wildfires.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Nov 29, 2024 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0
In each quarter in 2024, all SoCal markets experienced increasing vacancies.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Oct 26, 2024 | Buyers and Sellers, Economics, Real Estate | 0
California’s homeowner turnover rate is the lowest it’s been in years, showing just how frigid California’s housing market is in 2024.
Read Moreby David Swistock | Apr 30, 2024 | Charts, Commercial, Economics, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0
Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the first quarter of 2024.
Read Moreby David Swistock | Mar 27, 2024 | Economics, Feature Articles, Mortgages, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
When does strategic default make sense for a negative equity homeowner?
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Feb 14, 2024 | Economics, Home Sales, Real Estate | 0
Across the state, median-income households cannot qualify to buy at today’ prices.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 22, 2024 | Economics, Feature Articles, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 0
This article dives into how interest rates are structured, how lenders set the interest rate on a mortgage, and how rates affect property values.
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