Housing Market Splinters As Inflation Outpaces Price Growth

Housing Market Splinters As Inflation Outpaces Price Growth

S&P Global, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Redfin all released housing reports on Tuesday, revealing fracturing pricing trends and the market’s struggle to settle into a new normal. The housing market... Read more »
Trump Vows To Make Housing Affordable While Keeping Values Up as He Praises the ‘Golden Age of America’ in State of the Union Speech

Trump Vows To Make Housing Affordable While Keeping Values Up as He Praises the ‘Golden Age of America’ in State of the Union Speech

President Donald Trump reiterated his aim of making the housing market affordable without lowering home values during the State of the Union speech, his annual address to Congress. Trump’s speech on Tuesday... Read more »
The Housing Markets Positioned To ‘Unlock’ Fast if Mortgage Rates Plunge

The Housing Markets Positioned To ‘Unlock’ Fast if Mortgage Rates Plunge

Four years after mortgage rates surged from their COVID-19 pandemic-era lows, the national housing market remains stuck. However, an “unlocking” is on the horizon for a select group of metros across the... Read more »
Housing Production Well Behind Targets in Los Angeles County

Housing Production Well Behind Targets in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County has a long way to go before fixing its housing shortage after decades of building too little housing to meet growing demand.  Over a 40-year period since the 1970s,... Read more »
Residents Push Back on Landfill Smells Near Proposed Housing

Residents Push Back on Landfill Smells Near Proposed Housing

Irvine city leaders wasted little time in handing over an industrial site to Brookfield Residential Properties for development, but the project is already causing a big stink — and dealing with one. ... Read more »
Buyers Pull Back in the California Housing Market in January 2026

Buyers Pull Back in the California Housing Market in January 2026

If you’ve been keeping an eye on California’s housing market, you’ve probably noticed a bit of a chill setting in. And that chill became quite noticeable in January 2026. My take, supported... Read more »
10 Housing Markets With the Biggest Jump in Pending Sales in January 2026

10 Housing Markets With the Biggest Jump in Pending Sales in January 2026

Even though the national picture for home sales contracts looked a bit chilly in January, I’ve noticed some real pockets of warmth where buyers are actively signing on the dotted line. According... Read more »
Mixed-density housing keeps expanding as affordability reaches a breaking point

Mixed-density housing keeps expanding as affordability reaches a breaking point

Housing affordability – and its impact on Americans’ quality of life – is becoming a market- and generation-defining issue. Higher interest rates, constrained inventory, rising land costs, and slower wage growth have... Read more »
Schroders Lends  Million to Comstock for Commerce Housing

Schroders Lends $50 Million to Comstock for Commerce Housing

Comstock Realty Partners is closer to making a 14-acre master-planned community in Commerce a reality.  Century City-based Comstock secured $50 million in remediation financing from lender Schroders Capital linked to the Modelo... Read more »
Why Housing Search Must Move From Price to Monthly Payment

Why Housing Search Must Move From Price to Monthly Payment

Inflation didn’t just make things “more expensive.” It broke household planning—because the largest line item in most budgets, housing, is still shopped with the wrong unit of measure. When families budget by... Read more »