Santa Monica Monthly – February 2024
Mortgage Rates Have Dropped Quickly: How Low Will They Go In 2024? Homebuyers received an unexpected gift around the holidays as mortgage rates dropped rapidly late last year…the question on the minds of many aspiring homebuyers is just how low mortgage rates will drop this year. Courtesy of Realtor.com Source: themls.com Food Obsession of the […]
Santa Monica Monthly – January 2024
The 10 Best Real Estate Markets for 2024 A stubborn lack of inventory and high mortgage rates kept many prospective homebuyers at bay for most of 2023. But as we head into the new year, which markets are poised to see the strongest combined increase in home sales and listing prices? Courtesy of USA Today […]
Santa Monica Monthly – December 2023
It’s Taking Americans Much Longer in Life to Buy Their First Home… The typical age to buy a first home has jumped to 36 years old, the oldest ever on record. The rising age is a sign that high housing costs and mortgage rates are pushing homeownership out of reach for younger Americans. Courtesy of […]
Santa Monica Monthly – November 2023
Home prices rise for seventh consecutive month, per Case-Shiller Index After steadily declining for seven consecutive months, housing prices have now increased for the same amount of time – seven months, according to a new report. S&P CoreLogic’s latest Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, released October 31, reports that home-price growth rose in August […]
Santa Monica Monthly – October 2023
More Unmarried Couples Are Buying Homes Together…What to Know Before You Do. More couples are becoming homeowners before tying the knot. Unmarried couples make up 18% of all first-time homebuyers, up from just 4% in 1985, according to a 2022 report by the National Association of Realtors… Courtesy of CNBC LAST CHANCE TO BUY TICKETS! […]
Santa Monica Monthly – September 2023
Here’s How Gen Z Can Become Home Owners “My parents were in their 20s when they bought their first home. It was the 1950s, Midcentury Modern, (my mother’s favorite furniture style) was just modern, and the house, a Dutch colonial in Brooklyn with four bedrooms, one full bath and two half baths, cost them about […]
Santa Monica Monthly – August 2023
The Mansion Tax Effect: Luxury Home Sales Stall in Los Angeles L.A.’s ULA Measure, which raises money for affordable housing by adding a 4 percent transfer tax to home sales above $5 million, has “chilled” the market: “People started pulling their listings.” In early 2023, L.A.’s luxury real estate market experienced a boom as deals were closed […]
Santa Monica Monthly – July 2023
California Housing Market The California real estate market is one of the most expensive in the U.S. that’s adjusting to higher mortgage rates and rising inflation. However, the Golden State housing market remains healthy in its various regions, including the tech-savvy Bay Area and multi-faceted Southern California. California Housing Market Trends Home prices vary across […]
Santa Monica Monthly – June 2023
Is the housing market going to crash? What experts say about the possibility in 2023. There is little debate that the U.S. housing market is cooling down after home values rose at a frenzied pace during the pandemic. For the first time in 131 months, home prices fell year-over-year in February, ending the longest price […]
Santa Monica Monthly – May 2023
Jokes About Millennial Homeowners Can Stop Now “In what is being described as a historic shift, the millennial generation is now made up of more homeowners than renters, according to new data released by RentCafe. After years of being known as the “renter generation,” millennials tipped the scale, largely due to the 7 million people […]