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CALIFORNIA 2021 HOUSING MARKET RECAP

The real estate market in California largely mirrored the nationwide trends in 2021, with home prices rising by double digits in the outlying suburbs and smaller metro areas like Riverside and Sacramento. In city markets like San Francisco, the price increase was more modest, at least by 2021 standards, with the median sale price of a single-family residence at $1.9 million, a year-over-year increase of 12%, from $1.67 million.

As for California home prices in general, they far outpaced the nationwide median value. In October, the median sale value of a single-family residence in California was $798,440, up 12% from a year earlier than with greater than twice the nationwide median sale value of $353,900 reported in November by the National Association of Realtors.

“It was loopy all year”, stated Daniel Stea, a dealer and lawyer who owns Stea Realty Group and works in Oakland and Berkeley. That is, except a quick slowdown in June when bidding-war fatigue appeared to set in and a few consumers might have headed out of city, post-vaccination. But demand picked up sharply later in the summertime, he added, with move-in ready properties that had work-from-home house and backyards receiving a dozen or more offers.

Sacramento was one of the in-demand locations for consumers in search of bigger properties at comparatively reasonably prices. The “typical” price of a single-family residence in 2021 was $472,000, according to Zillow’s estimate — up 22% from 2020, however nonetheless far lower than the statewide common. “The space has newer and larger properties than its coastal neighbor to the west,” Mr. Tucker stated, referring to San Francisco. “That’s an excellent instance we noticed of the pattern in a variety of the nation.”

Last year, Los Angeles experienced a robust increase in property values. In November, the median sale value of a single-family residence there was $810,000, in response to data from Redfin, up from $730,000 the earlier yr — an 11 % improve that mirrored a mixture of bigger value will increase in additional reasonably priced areas and smaller ones in already expensive locations like Santa Monica, Ms. Fairweather stated.

Still, the luxury market soared in prosperous enclaves like Montecito, close to Santa Barbara, which made headlines in 2020 when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, purchased a $19.9 million residence there. In 2021, it continued to draw rich consumers, and the common sale value elevated by 4 % over the prior year, to $6.46 million, stated Martha J. Mosier, the president of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties.

Her clarification? “More and more executives do not have to stay in L.A. or in San Francisco.”

Inventory in a lot of the state stayed low, with the inventory of listings down greater than 30%, stated Danielle Hale, the chief economist at Realtor.com. San Francisco and Los Angeles noticed listings improve barely, yr over yr, she stated, “however as a result of strong consumer demand these properties are being snapped up rapidly.”

So what’s in store for California in 2022? “Quite a lot of these California markets are going to see homes prices rise half as quick as they did in 2021,” Ms. Hale stated. She and others cautioned, nevertheless, that the gradual tempo of development means demand for properties would seemingly outpace what is available for the foreseeable future.