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Tag: California home prices
California tiered home pricing
Home prices turn in a mixed performance across California’s metropolitan areas.
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Everyone is talking about high inflation — but what about home prices?
A heavy supply and demand imbalance is to blame for today’s high inflation, and high home prices.
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Proposed plan seeks to subsidize nearly half the price of a first home
California’s Build Back Boldly Plan incentivizes first-time homebuyers by subsidizing up to 45% of a home’s price.
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Luxury home sales defy gravity — and the recession
The recent successes of the luxury home sale market are more evidence of what many economists have coined as the K-shaped recession and recovery.
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Construction obstacles cut out low- and mid-income Californians from homeownership
The case for more construction of low-tier homes and accessory dwelling units.
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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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Home prices continue to break records in Q1 2021
A national and California-specific look into residential home sales in Q1 2021.
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Press Release: Q1 2021 Buyer Purchasing Power Index declines with rising interest rates
The Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) was +5.2 in March 2021.
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Desperate homebuyers push more homes to sell above list price
Home prices continue to defy recessionary expectations, having increased to new heights in 2020.
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2020 in review and a forecast for 2021
This article digests the major housing developments that occurred in 2020 and details firsttuesday’s forecast for 2021.
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Letter to the editor: Why are prices still rising even though we’re in a recession?
Several housing market factors are acting to buoy home prices in 2020, including low inventory, few distressed sales and historically low interest rates.
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Will home prices remain inflated in 2020, despite the recession?
Today’s supply-and-demand imbalance remains in sellers’ favor.
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The votes are in: Income inequality depresses home prices
Readers weigh in on how income inequality affects California home prices.
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The votes are in: Is California in the midst of an economic downturn?
Readers weigh in on whether California is headed for another recession.
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POLLS: 2020 economic forecast
What direction will home prices go throughout 2020? Home prices won't significantly change in...
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2019 in review and a forecast for 2020
This article summarizes California’s housing market in 2019 and forecasts where housing is heading in the year ahead.
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POLL: Where are prices right now in terms of a California real estate market cycle?
Where are prices right now in terms of a California real estate market cycle? Headed down. (44%,...
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Today’s homebuyers are wealthier than their new neighbors by necessity
New buyers tend to be wealthier than their neighbors.
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The housing market is slowing in 2019, but these California markets may see growth
Zillow has released its ideas about 2019’s housing market, including which U.S. cities will see the most growth this year.
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