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San Diego housing indicators
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Orange County housing indicators
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Riverside housing indicators
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Sacramento County housing indicators
Get to know Sacramento County’s local housing fundamentals in these charts and forecasts.
California price-per-square-foot analysis
Want a deeper understanding of your local real estate market? These charts show the price-per-square-foot history of home sales in communities across California.
Los Angeles housing indicators
View these Los Angeles regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its housing market.
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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%.
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
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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