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We have lift off! Multi-family conversions skyrocket in the 2020s
20,100 multi-family conversions took place in 2021, the most annual conversions to have taken place in the last decade.
Baby Boomers are hogging all the inventory
No matter how you slice it, there simply isn’t enough housing to go around.
Property taxes leap in 2020-2021
The past year’s homebuyers are shouldering a significant chunk of their communities’ property taxes.
China’s looming real estate crisis casts a shadow in California
The impact on consumer confidence in the Chinese real estate market and global financial markets will continue to be significant.
August 2021 California home sales rise 15% above a year earlier
48,100 new and resale home transactions closed escrow in California during August 2021.
The future of cryptocurrency in real estate transactions
The role of cryptocurrency in California real estate.
Press Release: Q3 2021 Buyer Purchasing Power Index hits zero as interest rates rebound from bottom
While not yet negative, Q3 2021’s neutral BPPI figure reflects a worsening situation for homebuyers reliant on mortgage financing.
California’s suburbs flip as Millennials and Gen Zs become majority renters
Goodbye white picket fence. Hello multi-family housing.
Asset prices are untethered from incomes; Monthly Statistical Update (October 2021)
1.3 million more jobs needed in California; Stocks soar to new heights; Stocks or real estate in 2022?
What does the end of single-family zoning look like?
Now that single-family zoning in California is done away with, what does the future look like?
Redlining: its history and lasting impacts
Redlining maps which color-coded and documented the creditworthiness of neighborhoods in the 1930s continue to negatively affect the lower-graded neighborhoods today.
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