C.A.R. Newsline:
California housing market outperforms expectations, breaking record high median price for fourth straight month, C.A.R. reports
– Existing, single-family home sales totaled 489,590 in September on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, up 5.2 percent from August and up 21.2 percent from September 2019.
– September’s statewide median home price was $712,430 up 0.8 percent from August and up 17.6 percent from September 2019.
– Year-to-date statewide home sales were down 3.7 percent in September.
“With the statewide home price hitting new highs for the past four months, it’s sounding like a broken record as California home sales and prices continue to outperform expectations,” said C.A.R. Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Leslie Appleton-Young. “However, with the shortest time on market in recent memory, an alarmingly low supply of homes for sale, and the fastest price growth in six and a half years, the market’s short-term gain can also be its weakness in the longer term as the imbalance of supply and demand could lead to more housing shortages and deeper affordability issues.”