California’s home sales volume decline is fully underway as of June 2022
June 2022 saw the third month in a row of decreasing sales, atypical for the spring sales cycle.
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Tag: California home prices
Finding out how a housing bubble ends — the hard way
Housing professionals can never be certain of a bubble’s existence until after the pop — but there are some tell-tale signs to watch for.
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The votes are in: Home prices will drop in 2022
One of our most answered July polls brings up crucial point about home prices. Prices are at a tipping point, but where are they headed?
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California tiered home pricing
Home prices turn in a mixed performance across California’s metropolitan areas.
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Storm clouds gather over California’s housing market
California — especially the Bay Area — is home to the highest number of swiftly-declining housing markets in the nation.
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Press Release: Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) falls to new low in Q2 2022
Rising interest rates caused the Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) hit a decades’ low in Q2 2022.
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May 2022 California home sales volume continues an unseasonal downward trend
Yet another month of lower sales volume is sounding alarm bells for sellers.
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A Dear John to homebuyer love letters
In California’s competitive markets, real estate agents depend on an arsenal of creative weapons to secure home sales transactions. But one of those weapons — the buyer love letter — is now coming under fire.
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POLL: Who do you believe will determine the price negotiated on property sales closing in 2023?
This week’s poll asks readers to share their estimates for property sales next year.
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Buckle up: seller price cuts rise in spring 2022
In terms of home prices, we are at the top of the roller coaster.
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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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POLL: How quickly are homes selling today in your market?
This week’s poll inquires on how the home selling is going in your market.
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Today’s first-time homebuyers are priced out of buying — and also renting
As first-time homebuyers try to muscle their way into today’s highly competitive housing market, many are finding themselves priced out of buying — and renting, too.
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California’s inventory shortage will not recover to pre-pandemic levels for years to come
When will housing inventory return to numbers seen before the pandemic?
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Employment and wages highest hurdles for Millennial first-time homebuyers
The American Dream of homeownership is out of reach for the average Millennial, especially in California. What will it take to restore the dream?
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Zillow Offers’ failure is a warning to today’s speculators
Real estate giant Zillow entered a hot and unpredictable housing market as a speculator experimenting with iBuying and got burned, reporting a total net loss of $530 million in 2021.
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2021’s home price increases: the last straw for California’s struggling homeownership rate?
U.S. home values have officially more than doubled since 2009 — but California passed that milestone years ago.
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The votes are in: What direction do you sense home prices will go in 2022?
This monthly piece is here to go over one of the more popular polls from February. Readers were asked what direction they sensed home prices would go in 2022, and the results vary.
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Housing experts divided on home sale forecast
After a year of earth-shattering home prices increases, real estate professionals are wondering — what’s next in 2022?
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POLL: What direction do you sense home prices will go in 2022?
This week’s poll inquires on where home prices will go in 2022.
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