Get to know Sacramento County’s local housing fundamentals in these charts and forecasts.
Sacramento County housing indicators
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Trending mortgage rates
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
California’s for-sale inventory growth: buyer caution rises faster than seller caution
In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.
BPO series: Trust deeds, liens and the due-on clause
Rational judgment by buyers and tenants is returning
The MLS environment
Review the historical and current practice of a buyer broker to earn and be paid their fee on a transaction when representing a buyer-client.
Jobs move real estate
Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.
Riverside housing indicators
View these Riverside regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its local housing market.
BPO series: Deeds, covenants and agreements
Here is the fourth post in our series drawing on appraisal concepts from our unpublished easy-to-digest BPO course content. This series showcases the fundamental real estate knowledge needed by a DRE licensee to competently develop a Broker Price Opinion (BPO)...
Using the yield spread to forecast recession and recovery conditions
The yield spread indicates the likelihood of a recession or recovery one year forward.
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
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.