Home prices decreased slightly across the metropolitan areas of California in May 2025.
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SoCal’s commercial property market struggles to find tenants — Q2 2025
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.
Trending mortgage rates
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
The force behind home price movement: buyer purchasing power
Find out what today’s buyer purchasing power means for tomorrow’s home prices in California.
Real estate runs with the labor force participation rate
Brokers who watch the jobs numbers along with the LFP rate will find the trends useful for forecasting their future brokerage conditions
San Francisco housing indicators
View these charts for current activity and forecasts for San Francisco’s housing market.
Form-of-the-Week: Commercial Lease Agreement — Form 552 series
A landlord or property manager uses a Commercial Lease Agreement – Gross – Single Tenant to lease commercial property to a tenant for a fixed term.
Will first-time homebuyers save California’s homeownership rate?
California’s homeownership rate dropped even as the typical age of first-time homebuyers rose.
California home sales volume
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
Errata & Updates
- Effective January 1st, 2021, California homeowners qualify for a net equity homestead protection of up to $300,000 or the median sale price for a single family residence (SFR) in the homeowner’s county in the calendar year prior to the year in which they claim the exemption, not to exceed $600,000 (adjusted annually for inflation). [CCP §704.730] For more on this topic, see Form-of-the-Week: Homestead exemption, an asset preservation declaration – Form 465