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: Charts
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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Riverside housing indicators
View these Riverside regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its local housing market.
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Using the yield spread to forecast recession and recovery conditions
The yield spread indicates the likelihood of a recession or recovery one year forward.
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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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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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California home sales volume
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
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California tiered home pricing
Home prices falter across the metropolitan areas of California at the end of 2024.
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Orange County housing indicators
View these Orange County regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its local housing market.
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California residential construction starts
Multi-family and SFR construction continue to lag behind demand for new housing.
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California’s for-sale inventory growth: waning buyer enthusiasm
In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.
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MIP, PMI or neither?
Which is better for first-time homebuyers reliant on mortgage insurance: MIP or PMI?
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Los Angeles housing indicators
View these Los Angeles regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its housing market.
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The rise and fall of real estate brokers and agents
This article analyzes the historical population of active DRE licensees, with discussions and forecasts about future licensing trends.
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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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SoCal commercial vacancy rates continue to rise in Q4 2023
Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the fourth quarter of 2023.
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Agents pivot as the economy teeters on the edge of recession; Monthly Statistical Update (January 2024)
California job additions continue; Job growth contracts; The yield spread forecasts the next recession.
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Sales volume trends, from a weak year; Monthly Statistical Update (December 2023)
Sales volume after 2023’s puny seasonal bounce; Sales volume is weakening, but a recovery lurks; MLS inventory flatlines, buyers and sellers wait
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As mortgage rates rise, so must property prices retreat; Monthly Statistical Update (November 2023)
The Monthly Statistical Update (MSU) keeps agents and brokers current on the market trends...
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Unstable economic signals hold down new construction; Monthly Statistical Update (October 2023)
Job growth stalls; The stock market, in disregard of reality; Construction struggles to take off despite need for more housing
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