Trending mortgage rates
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
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Category: Economics
Jobs move real estate
Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.
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The 20% solution: Personal savings rates and homeownership
Over the last few decades, savings has followed a path conversely proportionate to consumer confidence.
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The widening level of vacant commercial space available in SoCal — Q1 2025
SoCal’s commercial real estate market on entering 2025 is fully destabilized with industrial vacancy rates elevated across all SoCal markets and office vacancy rates even higher.
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SoCal commercial vacancy rates moving on up in Q4 2024
Commercial vacancy rates rose after 2023 and continue to rise in Southern California. While increasing vacancies cut into rental income and leasing fees, the absorption rate is worsening and shifting the source of leasing fees. Regions with the highest vacancy rates see the most occupancy of vacant space.
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Income tax updates for 2025, with whiplash from 2018-era tax changes
Real estate agents negotiating a transaction advise clients on tax consequences
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Restrictive central city zoning fuels construction for wildfires
California zoning laws which prohibit high-density infill development and instead incentivize horizontal expansion of suburbs increase the risk of loss to wildfires.
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SoCal commercial property struggles linger on in Q3 2024
In each quarter in 2024, all SoCal markets experienced increasing vacancies.
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California’s turnover rate ice cold in 2024
California’s homeowner turnover rate is the lowest it’s been in years, showing just how frigid California’s housing market is in 2024.
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SoCal commercial vacancy rates continue to rise in Q1 2024
Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the first quarter of 2024.
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Negative equity and foreclosure
When does strategic default make sense for a negative equity homeowner?
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Median income households do not support 2024 home pricing
Across the state, median-income households cannot qualify to buy at today’ prices.
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Interest rates 101
This article dives into how interest rates are structured, how lenders set the interest rate on a mortgage, and how rates affect property values.
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Despite Q4 2023 FRM rate slippage, Buyer Purchasing Power remains negative
Today’s homebuyer is limited to borrowing 9.7% less mortgage money than a year earlier due to higher interest rates alone.
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California home sales volume: more misses in November 2023
Just 18,800 new and resale home transactions closed escrow in California during November 2023.
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2023 in review and a real estate forecast for 2024
Review the the legislative changes and economic shifts which impacted real estate during 2023 and read our forecast for the property market in 2024.
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Legislators clear the path for more commercial-to-residential conversions
Legislators are limiting the power of local city councils to prohibit adaptive reuse projects.
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Mortgage delinquencies inch higher, equity shields homeowners — for now
Even as mortgage delinquencies rise, high levels of equity continue to shield homeowners from foreclosure.
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California home sales volume: the slide continues in October 2023
Year-to-date home sales volume is a fee-killing 29% below 2022 as of October 2023.
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Today’s homebuyers settle in for the long haul
In a rapid shift amounting to whiplash for real estate agents, today’s homebuyers will need to own for years before they gain enough equity to move again.
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