Home prices, including distressed sales, were up 5.6 percent year-over-year in the Inland Empire in October, according to data released Tuesday. That was below the national rate of 6.7 percent, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported. “While national home prices increased 6.7 percent, only nine states had home price growth at the same …
Read More »Local Foreclosure Rates Fall
The Inland Empire’s foreclosure rate dropped in September, another sign that the region’s economy continues to mend. Among all outstanding mortgage loans in the two-county region, 0.49 percent were in some state of foreclosure, a drop of 0.23 percentage points year-over-year, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported. That was lower than the national …
Read More »Housing Sales Slow, Prices Jump
Southern California’s housing market sent out mixed signals during October, with flat sales but a noticeable rise in prices. Sales of houses and condominiums in the six-count region – the Inland Empire plus Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura counties – were up an insignificant 0.3 percent year-over-year, according …
Read More »Moreno Valley Apartment Complex Sells
A large multifamily community in Moreno Valley has been sold. Broadstone Lasselle, a 304-unit complex near the intersection of Interstate 215 and the 60 Freeway, sold this month for a little more than $55 million, said Alex Garcia Jr., senior director with Marcus & Millichap’s Institutional Property Advisors division. The …
Read More »Cash Sales of Inland Empire Homes Keeps Dropping
Cash sales accounted for 22.5 percent of all home sales in the Inland Empire in August, a drop of nearly one percent year-over-year, according to data released this week. Nationwide, 31.1 percent of all home sales in August were cash transactions, while distressed sales made up 7.3 percent and REO …
Read More »Housing Affordability Flat
Thirty one percent of California households could afford to purchase the $515,940 median-priced home during the third quarter. That figure was essentially unchanged from the second quarter but was up nearly 30 percent year-over-year, according to data released this week by the California Association of Realtors in Los Angeles. A …
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