Housing Market
SoCal Caps 2016 With Steady Home Price Growth And Modest Sales Gain
By Andrew LePage Southern California’s housing market closed 2016 with the highest median sale price in nine years, continued steady price growth, slightly higher full-year sales than in 2015, record
Are Inland Empire Residents Locked Out of the Housing Market?
By Kelsi Maree Borland Things are bad on the home front for California and the Inland area. New single-family home construction is far below demand, and while new-home prices in
Home Prices Hit Peak Levels In Majority of Metro Areas, Fourth Quarter Data Show
By Troy McMullen The best quarterly sales pace of the year pushed available housing supply to record lows and caused price appreciation to slightly speed up in the final three
Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing
By Conor Dougherty – Suppose there were a way to pump up the economy, reduce inequality and put an end to destructive housing bubbles like the one that contributed to
Middle-class Workers in California are Struggling to Find Homes They Can Afford
By Kevin Smith – Oscar Sol has spent the past five months searching for a home he can afford to buy. But so far, he has struck out. “I’m looking
South County Is Where The Land Is
By Carrie Rossenfeld South County remains one of the only places in San Diego County where a large, master-planned community can be introduced, and it offers more-affordable product relative to
Hand-Wringing Over Rising Rates
By John McManus Are rising interest rates eroding demand momentum? It’s really tough to do the math, because cause-and-effect doesn’t come purely into play, and even correlations are hard to
New-Home Sales Up for Fifth Straight Year
By Frank Nothaft Low mortgage rates, job growth, and an improving consumer optimism have all supported the recovery in home sales during the last few years. Both sales of newly
Measure S Would Shackle Construction of Affordable Housing
By Jenna Chandler – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is joining the campaign against Measure S, highlighting how it would stymie construction of affordable housing. The mayor joined union workers,
Zelman’s Look at Multigen
By John McManus For residential developers and volume builders, the future is the present. To recognize a budding population pattern, and model correctly how that pattern will play out over
