Market Watch | firsttuesday Journal

Trending mortgage rates

by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 18, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate | 20

Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.

The mean price trendline: the home price pivot

by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 17, 2025 | Charts, Home Sales, Real Estate | 9

The mean price trendline reveals housing price deviations. Track the trends to reveal the direction of prices in the years ahead.

Santa Clara County regional housing indicators

by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 11, 2025 | Bay Area, Charts, Forecasts, Mortgages, Real Estate | 6

Santa Clara’s housing market is experiencing the downfall from 2021’s pandemic bounce.

Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) hints at rising as home price adjustment sets in

by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 2, 2025 | Economics, Home Sales, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate, Recessions | 0

Planning for the next several years in real estate transactions will require patience and a very different approach to the past decade of recovery economics driven by rate decreases.

Nationally MLOs are far fewer in 2024; CA DRE MLOs increase, DFPI MLOs decrease

by ft Editorial Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | Charts, Licensing and Education, Loan Products, Real Estate | 1

The trend for state-licensed MLOs is down in 2024.

Newly-licensed sales agent and broker population

by ft Editorial Staff | Jun 23, 2025 | Charts, Licensing and Education, Real Estate | 0

This article examines the number of broker and sales agent licenses issued by the DRE from 1998-present, with forecasts about future licensing trends.

Sacramento County housing indicators

by ft Editorial Staff | Jun 6, 2025 | Charts, Forecasts, Mortgages, Real Estate, Sacramento | 9

Get to know Sacramento County’s local housing fundamentals in these charts and forecasts.

California’s for-sale inventory growth: buyer caution rises faster than seller caution

by ft Editorial Staff | Jun 6, 2025 | Charts, Fundamentals, Home Sales | 1

In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.

Jobs move real estate

by ft Editorial Staff | May 14, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Real Estate | 13

Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.

Riverside housing indicators

by ft Editorial Staff | May 12, 2025 | Charts, Forecasts, Inland Empire, Mortgages, Real Estate | 15

View these Riverside regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its local housing market.

Using the yield spread to forecast recession and recovery conditions

by ft Editorial Staff | May 7, 2025 | Charts, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Real Estate, Recessions | 40

The yield spread indicates the likelihood of a recession or recovery one year forward.

San Diego housing indicators

by ft Editorial Staff | May 7, 2025 | Charts, Forecasts, Mortgages, Real Estate, San Diego | 29

View these charts for current activity and forecasts for San Diego’s housing market.

The rise and fall of real estate brokers and agents

by ft Editorial Staff | May 5, 2025 | Charts, Licensing and Education, Real Estate | 38

This article analyzes the historical population of active DRE licensees, with discussions and forecasts about future licensing trends.

The 20% solution: Personal savings rates and homeownership

by ft Editorial Staff | May 2, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Home Sales, Market Watch, Real Estate | 0

Over the last few decades, savings has followed a path conversely proportionate to consumer confidence.

California home sales volume

by ft Editorial Staff | Apr 25, 2025 | Charts, Home Sales, Market Watch, Real Estate | 104

What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?

California tiered home pricing

by ft Editorial Staff | Apr 25, 2025 | Bay Area, Charts, first tuesday Local, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Mortgages, Real Estate, San Diego | 31

Home prices falter across the metropolitan areas of California at the end of 2024.

The widening level of vacant commercial space available in SoCal — Q1 2025

by Amy Platero | Apr 23, 2025 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0

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.