REIT investment: playing the real estate game from the sidelines
What are Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and why are they useful?
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Category: Market Watch
Cash sales plummeted in 2020
Record-low interest rates and a tumultuous housing market resulted in very few cash buyers in 2020.
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S&P 500: Stock pricing vs. earnings (P/E ratio)
An update on stock pricing and earnings.
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Current market rates
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
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Income inequality harms California’s housing market
Income inequality is catching up with California’s economy, stifling household formation and dragging down the housing market.
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The 20% solution: personal savings rates and homeownership
How today’s savings rates impact California’s real estate market.
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Pre-built home sales at historic high
The vast majority of 2020’s new home sales were for homes not yet completed or even started.
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Renting and owning across counties
Homeownership and rental vacancy rates decline across California. Are rentals the future of real estate?
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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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California home sales volume lays low
Home sales volume is expected to continue its decrease in 2020.
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Interest rates at their historic bottom and looking ahead to the LIBOR’s retirement; Monthly Statistical Update (January 2021)
Fixed rate mortgages continue on toward new lows; Interest rates hold onto their cyclical bottom; The LIBOR is going, going…
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Foreclosure moratorium expiration looms — what then?
When the foreclosure moratorium ends, servicers may begin or resume the foreclosure process, unless homeowners are in a forbearance program.
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Press Release: Q4 2020 Buyer Purchasing Power Index climbs to new heights as interest rates reach record lows
The BPPI was +13.4 at the end of Q4 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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Jobs move real estate
California’s employment market finally reached a full recovery in 2019, only to plunge in 2020.
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Using the yield spread to forecast recessions and recoveries
The yield spread indicates the likelihood of a recession or recovery one year forward.
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Santa Clara County regional housing indicators
Santa Clara County is well on its way to a full housing recovery.
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San Francisco housing indicators
View these charts for current activity and forecasts for San Francisco’s housing market.
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San Diego housing indicators
View these charts for current activity and forecasts for San Diego’s housing market.
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Sacramento County housing indicators
Get to know Sacramento County’s local housing fundamentals in these charts and forecasts.
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