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Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
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Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) inches higher in Q4 2025
Buyers today are able to borrow 2.1% more than a year earlier due to lower interest rates alone.
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Market condition analysis in a broker price opinion
Agents preparing a BPO ignore price trends at their peril.
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30 years of summer, followed by 30 years of winter
Mortgage rates are on their way up.
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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.
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Rentals: the future of California real estate?
California’s low homeownership rate means rentals are in high demand, with vacancies near historic lows.
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Due-on leasing regulations
Landlords and property managers need to know what triggers and exempts the due-on clause, since mortgage holders enforce the due-on clause more frequently in times of rising interest rates.
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Mortgage Concepts: The LIBOR to SOFR Transition
This Mortgage Concepts video breaks down the LIBOR scandal and why lenders have transitioned to SOFR.
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The boundless influence of Federal Reserve policies
Learn how the Federal Reserve influences interest rates – and California real estate transactions.
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Refinances oppose interest rate movement
Following record-smashing refinance volume in 2020-2021, refinances have quickly retreated into irrelevance.
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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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Investors eye future interest rates
The ideal cap rate for 2023 and beyond is higher than you think.
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California’s rental vacancy rates drop to unhealthy levels
Rental vacancy rates dropped extremely low in California. Is a storm brewing?
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Consumer sentiment plummets as recession looms large
Consumer confidence serves as the North Star in a constellation of economic warnings.
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POLL: What effect have higher mortgage rates had on homebuyer decisions in 2022?
This week’s poll asks readers their thoughts on how mortgage rates impact homebuyer decisions.
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Disclosures on carryback financing transactions
As interest rates rebound from their historic lows during the pandemic, buyer purchasing power is...
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Can the Fed cool inflation without implementing another recession?
The tipping point for another recession is nigh.
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California’s home remodeling boom set to peak in 2022
A home renovation boom is stirring up in 2022, escalating the already inflated costs of building materials and labor.
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Q1 2022 Buyer Purchasing Power Index falls further into negative territory
Rapidly rising interest rates caused the BPPI figure to slip to -12.7 in March 2022 – and falling.
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First-time homebuyers and households of color most impacted by interest rate hikes
Absent a decrease in demand (unlikely), first-time homebuyers, and particularly homebuyers of color, stand to lose the most from 2022’s rising interest rates.
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