Tightened mortgage standards lock out mid- to high-tier homebuyers, sellers
Mortgage loan availability fell in July 2023 to its lowest level in a decade for non-qualified mortgages (QMs).
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Tag: California home prices
California tiered home pricing
Home prices are at the tail end of a brief seasonal uptick across California’s metropolitan areas.
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Price cuts moderate during spring bump, with more to come
Any seller confidence gained during spring’s meager seasonal boost is premature.
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Mortgage payments jump — and misguided buyers feel driven to overpay
Today’s homebuyers remain undeterred by rising interest rates, still-high home prices and slowing sales.
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California home sales volume: Spring housing demand evaporates as price drop pauses
For the second year in a row, California home sales volume peaked early, falling back in April 2023.
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Spring price cuts, days-on-market, continue to climb
Seller price cuts and days-on-market continue to escalate across California in Spring 2023.
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California home sales volume inches forward in March 2023
After a year of steadily decreasing sales, California home sales volume is struggling without a rebound in 2023.
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Press Release: Q1 2023 Buyer Purchasing Power Index down 23% from a year earlier
A homebuyer with the same income is able to borrow 23% less purchase-assist mortgage money than a year ago due to interest rate hikes alone.
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The mean price trendline: the home price anchor
The mean price trendline reveals housing price deviations. Track the trends to reveal the direction of prices in the years ahead.
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California home sales volume broke another decade low in January 2023
California home sales volume started 2023 with the lowest numbers since the Great Recession.
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California home sales volume in 2022 began the purge of pandemic distortions
The number of homes sold in December 2022 was a devastating 44% below a year earlier.
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Buyer purchasing power determines home prices — always
Little interest rate changes make a big difference in how much a homebuyer can pay.
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The danger of high appraisals in a spiraling housing market
A high appraisal has long stakes for homebuyers – and lenders.
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Long-distance homebuyers continue to break records
The share of homebuyers searching outside of their current metro continues to increase.
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2023 recession demands discipline from investors; Monthly Statistical Update (November 2022)
Today’s weak yield spread reflects 2023’s poor economic outlook; Investors abandon risk in favor of safe havens; Property prices have a long way to fall in 2023-2025
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Discover the value — versus price — for a California home
See how far prices have deviated from their historical norm — the value level to which prices will inevitably return in the years ahead.
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Investing: Stocks or real estate?
Where to park your cash? It depends on how long you’re going to park it for – and what types of risks you’re willing to take.
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Home prices in full retreat — just how far will they fall?
Here in California, home prices peaked in May 2022 and have since entered into a free fall.
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What a cooling market means for both sides of real estate transactions
The real estate market’s pivot from soaring prices to plunging prices will affect buyers, sellers, lenders and support services in different ways.
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Forget the past two years: time to rethink your real estate practice
What will happen to your real estate practice now that the Pandemic Economy is over?
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