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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%.
California tiered home pricing
Home prices decreased slightly across the metropolitan areas of California in May 2025.
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.
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.
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?
The mean price trendline: the home price pivot
The mean price trendline reveals housing price deviations. Track the trends to reveal the direction of prices in the years ahead.
The Federal Reserve’s impact on mortgage rates
Learn how the Fed is using their benchmark rate as a monetary policy tool
Context is key
Learn the 25 factors that drive California’s real estate market to better understand today’s top news stories.
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