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The 20% solution: Personal savings rates and homeownership
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California home sales volume
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
California tiered home pricing
Home prices falter across the metropolitan areas of California at the end of 2024.
The widening level of vacant commercial space available in SoCal — Q1 2025
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.
Orange County housing indicators
View these Orange County regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its local housing market.
California residential construction starts
Multi-family and SFR construction continue to lag behind demand for new housing.
Form-of-the-Week: Tenant Representation Agreements and Renewals — Forms 105.1, 105.2, 105.1A and 105.2A
The tenant representation agreement employing a broker to acquire a leasehold interest in a property is the leasing equivalent to the buyer representation agreement to acquire a fee interest.
MIP, PMI or neither?
Which is better for first-time homebuyers reliant on mortgage insurance: MIP or PMI?
Los Angeles housing indicators
View these Los Angeles regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its housing market.
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