News and Data:
The following articles have been pulled from special sections curated by the IE-RE News editors to reflect the latest and most relevant information related to housing and real estate:
| DATE | News and Information: |
|---|---|
July 26 | The housing market is constrained by limited supply and high prices. By Tim Smart |
July 25 | Study Finds Nearly 19,000 Affordable Housing Units Stuck in the Development Pipeline By Candice Nguyen, Jeremy Carroll and Kevin Nious |
July 22 | By ERIKA PAZ |
July 21 | Continued growth expected for industrial and multi-family housing; possible turnaround predicted for office and retail By UCLA Anderson Forecast |
July 21 | By LANCE LAMBERT |
July 20 | By CBSLA Staff |
July 16 |
By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) |
July 16 | Nationwide, homeowners’ net worth is 40 times greater than renters. But for families of color, homeownership is harder to reach. By Anabel Munoz and Grace Manthey |
July 15 | Yardi Matrix in June saw a historic 6.3% year-over-year increase in apartment asking rents. By YARDI MATRIX |
July 14 | July 14, 2021 – By carolbull |
July 13 | July 13, 2021 – By NY Times Guest Writer |
July 13 | Redfin reports that the bidding-war rate remains higher than it was a year ago, but has dropped to 65% from its peak earlier this year July 13, 2021 – By Redfin |
July 13 | July 13, 2021 – By Joseph Edgar |
July 9 | Ending single-family zoning doesn’t ban single-family homes from neighborhoods. It merely allows more freedom for people to build what they want. July 9, 2021 – By STEVEN GREENHUT |
July 7 | By Press Enterprise |
July 7 | By Press Telegram |
July 7 | By Noel King |
July 7 | By Press Enterprise |
July 6 | Average home prices in California are more than double the national average By Brittany De Lea |
July 6 | Vacancy rates continue to drop as rent grows By GREG CORNFIELD |
July 6 | By Tiffany Harbrecht |
July 6 | By Cindy Uken |
July 2 | Region is outperforming along multiple measures By VICTORIA PIKE BOND |
July 1 | By Diana Olick |
July 1 | By Press Enterprise |
June 28 | By Carrie B. Reyes |
June 28 | LA needs to build hundreds of thousands of units, altering single-family home neighborhoods. By Gabriel Kahn |
June 28 | By PATRICK ATWATER |
June 25 | By Press Enterprise |
June 25 | By ishwarkimmins |
June 24 | By Joe Dyton |
June 23 | By Bethany Blankley |
June 23 | By Dan Walters |
June 21 | California home prices continue shattering records. As buyers lose hope, state lawmakers are devising long-term plans to help the middle-class achieve homeownership. By Lemor Abrams |
June 14 | The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics. By Matthew A. Winkler |
June 14 | The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics. By Matthew A. Winkler |
June 11 | By Joel Kotkin |
June 11 | By deepdesrochers |
June 11 | By Times Herald |
June 11 | The boogeyman isn’t who you want it to be. By Jerusalem Demsas |
June 07 | By Natalie Campisi |
June 04 | By deepdesrochers |
June 03 | By Kelsi Maree Borland |
June 02 | Year-to-date deliveries accounted for some 10,400 units across the top 10 markets in the state, according to Yardi Matrix data. By Lucia Morosanu |
May 28 | By Amy Perry |
May 28 | By KIRK SIEGLER |
May 27 | By CBSLA Staff |
May 27 | With a key legislative deadline next week, Newsom’s housing adviser speaks about the governor’s priorities on affordable housing. The big takeaway: California is millions of housing units short, and cities hold the key. BY MANUELA TOBIAS |
May 27 | By Holden Lewis, Nerd Wallet |
May 25 | By Press Enterprise |
May 22 | By TY HAQQI |
May 20 | By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® |
May 20 | Frustrated Southern California house hunters shouldn’t expect homebuilders to offer much help with limited choices any time soon. Los Angeles and Orange County builders have the nation’s thinnest supply of lots to build on while the Inland Empire is middle-of-the-pack. By Jonathan Lansner |
May 20 | A modest market cool-down appears to be on the horizon, but Southern California could buck the trend By Ian Spiegelman |
May 18 | Study says the farther an apartment is from Los Angeles, the higher its potential for rent increases in the next year BY GREG CORNFIELD |
May 17 | Existing, single-family home sales totaled 458,170 in April on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, up 2.6 percent from March and up 65.1 percent from April 2020. April’s statewide median home price was $813,980, up 7.2 percent from March and up 34.2 percent from April 2020. Year-to-date statewide home sales were up 26.2 percent in April. BY CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) |
May 14 | By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) |
May 10 | Rising material costs and supply shortages along with expected increases in mortgage rates are expected to keep a growing number of potentially prospective home buyers in multi-family rentals. By Ted Knutson |
May 9 | The state lost 182,000 people in 2020, but added 100,000 homes, for 270,000 people. Los Angeles lost 52,000 people, added 18,000 homes. San Francisco lost 14,800 people, added 4,000 homes. By Wolf Richter |
May 8 | By AILSA CHANG, CHRISTOPHER INTAGLIATA, JONAKI MEHTA |
May 4 | By Kelsey Pudloski |
May 4 | Nikki Pechet started Homebound, a marketplace for home design and construction, after the devastating 2017 fires in Northern California. Now she has her sights set on addressing the rest of America’s dire housing shortage. By Nate Berg |
May 4 | By Palash Ghosh |
May 3 | By Bryce Jorgensen |
April 27 | By JOSEPH PIMENTEL |
April 24 | By Scott Wilson |
April 21 | Home prices jumped by 17.2 percent in Los Angeles County last month, and the story was the same across the region By Ian Spiegelman |
April 27 | By David Rae |
April 21 | Colliers International’s Chris Sheehan on what to expect from the nation’s top industrial market. By Tudor Scolca |
April 19 | While the occupancy rate was down 30 basis points year-over-year through February nationwide, these five metros saw upticks of as much as 330 basis points during the same period. By Razvan Cimpean |
April 19 | By Christina Hughes Babb |
April 17 | Many home buyers are opting to waive contingencies. Here’s what to know about this risky strategy. By Jacob Passy |
April 16 | By WMRE Staff |
April 16 | Existing, single-family home sales totaled 446,410 in March on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, down 3.5 percent from February and up 19.7 percent from March 2020. March’s statewide median home price was $758,990, up 8.6 percent from February and up 23.9 percent from March 2020. Year-to-date statewide home sales were up 17.1 percent in March. By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® |
April 16 | With homes selling faster and for more than the asking price, the housing market is thriving across the country. It’s particularly intense in counties like Riverside and San Bernardino, where experts say prices are slightly more affordable. By Leticia Juarez and Grace Manthey |
April 15 | Largest price increases in the US were in Austin, Texas; Fresno, California By Tim Glaze |
April 13 | By Manuela Tobias, Matt Levin & Ben Christopher |
April 13 | By Ben Geier, CEPF® |
April 7 | The least competitive homebuyers in the country can be found in Virginia Beach, according to LendingTree, followed by Riverside, California, and Atlanta. Homes in those three cities are being sold for, on average, $314,000, $314,000 and $322,000, respectively, per Realtor.com and Zillow. By Tim Glaze |
April 3 | Limited inventory, low interest rates and bidding wars are driving prices sky-high By Nicole Friedman |
March 31 | By Tom Tucker |
March 27 | Real estate prices are skyrocketing in the Inland Empire and experts say the demand is so high, buyers are getting into bidding wars, but how could this be happening during a pandemic with so many people struggling financially. By Tony Shin for NBC4 News |
Q1-2021 | A boom in e-commerce and shifting population densities as well increasing transportation costs are making industrial real estate a “can’t miss.” By Jason Tolliver, Managing Director, Investor Services, Cushman & Wakefield |
March 23 | Key legislators push duplexes, looser regulations and more money to boost housing supply. By NIGEL DUARA |
March 20 | There are only three states nationwide where more than half of the households could afford to buy a median-priced new home By Jacob Passy |
March 16 | Existing, single-family home sales totaled 462,720 in February on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, down 4.5 percent from January and up 9.7 percent from February 2020. February’s statewide median home price was $699,000, down 0.1 percent from January and up 20.6 percent from February 2020. Year-to-date statewide home sales were up 15.9 percent in February. By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) |
March 13 | By Erin Baldassari |
March 8 | By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) |
March 8 | A mass exodus from California clearly didn’t happen in 2020’: report By GREG CORNFIELD |
March 5 | By Lauren Hepler, CalMatters |
March 5 | In America’s largest, richest cities, home prices and rents are going in opposite directions. By Derek Thompson |
March 3 | An increase in real estate prices and demand in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is largely being caused by people moving from L.A. By Brittany Martin |
March 1 | To boost housing, cities like Berkeley and Sacramento are striking down single-family zoning laws and encouraging more dense development, joining a nationwide trend. By Laura Bliss |
March 1 | By Brandon Cornett |
February 28 | BY LANCE LAMBERT |
February 23 | By CBSLA Staff |
February 19 | Existing, single-family home sales totaled 484,730 in January on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, down 4.9 percent from December and up 22.5 percent from January 2020. January’s statewide median home price was $699,890, down 2.5 percent from December and up 21.7 percent from January 2020. The statewide Unsold Inventory Index was 1.5 months in January, up from 1.3 months in December but down from 3.4 months in January 2020. By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) |
February 19 | By CBSLA Staff |
February 18 | The 2020 fourth-quarter findings from Realtor.com also showed the county was the third fastest-growing luxury housing market in the nation. By Toni McAllister |
February 17 | It might seem impossible that the already strong market could break new records, but the thriving industrial market recorded 26 million square feet of absorption in 2020. By Kelsi Maree Borland |
February 16 | By Stan Smith |
February 10 | By Lisa Brown |
February 9 | By Tim Kohut |
February 8 | By Les Shaver |
February 8 | By Paul Centopani |
February 6 | By Jacob Passy |
January 29 | In 2020, there were a record number of industrial transactions, and Phoenix and the Inland Empire were among the top markets. By Kelsi Maree Borland |
January 27 | By Ingo Winzer |
January 24 | “You keep expecting regulation to take a toll on business … but when you look at the numbers and metrics, they keep going and going.” By Linda Baker |
January 22 | By Diana Olick |
January 22 | Home prices and sales have surged, but the good news doesn’t extend to most renters By Ian Spiegelman |
January 21 | Home prices and sales have surged, but the good news doesn’t extend to most renters By Jeff Shaw in California, Industrial, Market Reports, Western, Western Market Reports |
January 21 | By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters |
January 20 | By Kelsey Pudloski |
January 20 | By Dana M. Reid and Matthew Widmyer |
January 15 | – Existing, single-family home sales totaled 509,750 in December on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, up 0.2 percent from November and up 28 percent from December 2019. – December’s statewide median home price was $717,930, up 2.7 percent from November and up 16.8 percent from December 2019. – For 2020 as a whole, sales of existing statewide homes were up 3.5 percent from last year. By CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) |