California Reach Record Home Prices Since The COVID-19 Recovery
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California Reach Record Home Prices despite the coronavirus outbreak in February 2020.
California has the nation’s highest home prices. California is also one of the highest-taxed in the nation. Many Californians have been fleeing California for many years. However, with increasing taxes and high cost of housing, many Californians have been fleeing the state more than ever in the history of the state. Most middle income wage earners cannot afford a home in California. Home values in California was always double the national average. Home prices in the state hit a historic record high at $712,430 in September 2020. October’s number decline slightly to $711,300. These numbers still are more than double the national median home price average of $349,500. The rapid recovery of the coronavirus economic downturn has pushed demand and sales of homes to historic record levels throughout the whole state of California. Adding fuel to the fire on demand of homebuyers is the historic record mortgage rates. Earlier this year, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell has lowered interest rates to zero percent. Mortgage rates follow the Fed interest rate. The zero percent Fed rate has plummeted mortgage rates to a historic low. Mortgage rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to under 2.875% for prime borrowers. Mortgage rates have been at historic record lows for the past five months. Rates are expected to remain low for the near future. California Housing Market Forecast for 2021 is expected to remain strong. Some experts expect the 2021 California Housing Market to be the strongest ever in history. This holds true with a massive exodus of Californians due to the political state of California. Many believe the state’s incompetent politicians such as Governor Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Eric Garcetti, Javier Becerra, Eric Swalwell, and dozens of others are running the state into the ground.
California Reach Record Home Prices Due To Low Rates And Surge In Buyer Demand
California’s home values have always been double the value of the nation’s median home prices for decades.
- However, it is skyrocketing like never before due to the historic low mortgage rates
- Most builders in California are having a difficult time in trying to keep up with buyer demand
- Home prices in California has been hitting record high for the past five months since the coronavirus pandemic outbreak
- Home sales are up 20% this September from one year ago
- Over 400,000 homes sold in October 2020
- This is the fourth month will home sales surpassing 400,000 per month since the COVID-19 outbreak
- Over 60% of Californians feel positive that right now is a good time to purchase and/or sell a home in California
- This new consumer confidence level by homebuyers is an 11% increase from last year
- Despite the bad decisions made by the state’s Democrats like Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and other incompetent Democrat politicians with their stay at home orders, demand for homebuyers has been stronger than ever
- Thousands of small business owners are struggling financially due to the out of control restrictive shutdown orders by politicians.
- There are more restaurants going out of business in California than any other state in the nation
Illinois, under the leadership of 5’5″ 500 pound obese JB Pritzker is ranked second as the state with the most small businesses closing due to incompetent leadership.
What California Experts Feel About The Booming Housing Market
California Reach Record Home Prices: 2021 Housing Market Forecast To Remain Strong
California has many moving parts going on at the same time. Many of us heard about the mass California exodus due to incompetent leadership by the state’s Democrats. California has one of the highest tax rates out of any state in the nation. California also leads as having the highest home prices in the U.S. Average homes in the state is double the national median. The state’s high home prices is mainly due to the environmental red tape it takes to build homes in California. It takes three times longer to get permits to build homes in California versus other states. This slows down home builders and costs more money per square foot to build a home than other states. At the end of the day, the consumer pays more money. Most builders do not make more profit building homes in California. Despite tens of thousands of families and businesses fleeing the state, there are more homebuyers than inventory of homes throughout the state of California. The 2021 housing market forecast in California is expected to be the strongest ever and many analysts and economists predict California will have one of the hottest housing markets in the nation. From the beginning of the year 2012 to the end of 2019, the median home price in California appreciated by a massive 85.5%, from $305,000 to $566,000. Real estate market experts are forecasting home prices will increase by more than 9.5% in 2021. There is no housing market correction in sight.
December 13, 2020 - 4 min read