California housing market
California home values peaked at $493,706 in 2006, fell -42.8% to $282,628 by 2012, and stand at $775,549 today.
Housing Predictor forecasts for California
7 forecasts published for California, newest first.
Coverage gap. The most recent California forecast on this site is for 2018 — 8 years ago. The measured figures above are current; the forecasts below are not.
California in the archive
Reporting filed under California, newest first.
Discover the Best Real Estate Markets for Investing
After some considerable ups and downs (especially in the aftermath of the 2008 economic fall), the markets around the country are recovered and growing.
The Best Real Estate Markets 2013
When considering which real estate markets are the best, it is wise to look at home sales among other aspects as this number often reveals a thriving real…
Bulk Government Foreclosure Sales Start
By Mike Colpitts The U.S. government is starting to sell-off its massive over-supply of foreclosed homes to investment equity firms at major discounts in a…
Foreclosure Crisis – “I Wouldn’t Have Bought the House”
Barbara MacGregor and her husband are a lot like a lot of other people. They had never owned a home.
U.S. Real Estate Market Rebound
Recovery Forecast Not Until 2011 The U.S. real estate market will take at least three years to recover from its massive slump and it wont fully rebound from…
National Real Estate Prices Forecast to Deflate Further
Scrambling to find a bottom, the U.S. real estate market is falling further and further in most areas of the country.
Twenty Five Percent of Real Estate Markets to Appreciate
Nearly a quarter of the real estate markets Housing Predictor forecasts in 2008 will see appreciation, while the majority are projected to deflate with…
Cities, States Respond to Foreclosure Crisis
By Mike Colpitts Since the federal government has only tried piece-meal solutions to resolve the housing mess cities and states across the U.S.
Declining Foreclosures Bring Better Times
By Mike Colpitts Foreclosure activity declined 25% in the nation’s most populated state, California from one year ago in July, but the Golden State holds the…
Home Sales & Prices Jump
By Mike Colpitts Sales of existing homes and national median prices jumped in July to reach a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.47 million housing units…
Mexican Drug Money Fuels Cash Purchases
By Mike Colpitts Mexican drug cartels have slowly moved money out of banks and other hiding places and into U.S. real estate investments.
Effort to Block Bulk Wholesale Home Sales Launched
By Mike Colpitts An effort to block the bulk wholesale home sales of foreclosed property held by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to investors at cheaply…
Recovery Heads to Higher Home Prices
By Ryan Jackson The U.S. housing recovery is moving into higher priced home markets as technology and newer industries pave the way for the nation’s future…
Olympics Trigger Huge Boom, But Little in Home Values
By Ryan Jackson Six cities that hosted the Olympics in the last quarter century have experienced huge construction booms with new projects needed to house…
MERS Role Upheld in Foreclosures
By Mike Colpitts MERS, the electronic mortgage giant transfer company at the center of the robo-signing scandal, received better news from the California…
Higher Prices May Produce Trouble Bubble
By Ryan Jackson Higher home prices being paid in some U.S. cities could lead to troublesome isolated bubbles, according to new research.
Homeowners Bill of Rights to Become Law
By Mike Colpitts California lawmakers have passed a groundbreaking series of foreclosure relief bills that proponents hope will spur similar legislation for…
5 Best Beach Vacation Home Bargain Cities
The surf meets the sand in the heat of summer. Whether this is the year to buy that beach vacation home or not is another thing.
Foreign Real Estate Buyers Drive Recovery
By Mike Colpitts Cash flush foreign real estate buyers are driving the U.S. housing market into a recovery, producing $82.5 billion in sales in the last year…
Foreclosure Filings Top 1-Million
By Ryan Jackson More than 1-million U.S. homes had foreclosure filings of some sort filed against them in the first half of the year ( 1,045,801), according…
Home Prices Climb at 25 Year Clip
By Ryan Jackson Home prices increased at the fastest rate in 25 years during the spring selling season, according to real estate research firm CoreLogic.
Home Sales Fall in May
By Ryan Jackson Home sales fell in May to provide a slow start to the summer home selling season, which is usually the busiest time of the year for the…
Research Firms Agree Home Prices: Are Rising
By Mike Colpitts In a major positive sign for the U.S. housing market, the two largest real estate research firms tracking the market agree that average home…
Foreclosures Jump Resumes After Robo-Signing Slowdown
By Mike Colpitts Foreclosure starts rose for the first time in more than two years in May, signaling a resumption of formal bank repossessions of homes with…