Condos were whacked hardest again last month, at least as measured by the size-adjusted median price. That price indicator was down 6.4% for condos between January and February alone. The detached home size-adjusted median was down 3.0%, with a volume-weighted aggregate of the two down 3.8%. ... Read more

Today the California Employment Development Department revealed, unsurprisingly, that San Diego's job losses have been severe. The latest update included a revision to last year's data, which painted a bleaker picture of recent months than had previous releases. (This is also unsurprising, given som ... Read more

Well, people continue to ask questions about those home price rate-of-change graphs so I thought I'd put up a few more. Some people wanted to see a longer-term view that showed the year-over-year price change during the boom as well as during the bust. And some wanted to see the actual price in ... Read more

People seemed to find the rate-of-change graph in the prior post interesting so I thought I'd follow up with a look at how all the individual Case-Shiller price tiers have been trending. The results are found in the accompanying graph... continue reading at voiceofsandiego.org ... Read ... Read more

Below are a few quick graphs of the December numbers... I will note that for the second month in a row, the high tier fell most on a month-to-month basis (-2.4%). I should also note that the tier cutoffs keep getting lower -- moreso than would be accounted for by just price declines -- because ... Read more

After last week's note on the topic of dramatically disparate buyer interest in different property types I thought I should update the stats on which zip codes have seen the biggest increases in sales activity. To change it up a bit this time, I sorted the list of zip codes based on January 2009 ... Read more

Housing sales volume has been improving of late, as I noted last week . But now that foreclosure activity has bounced back after a temporary lull that resulted from a change to state law, the number of existing homes going into foreclosure each month is once again higher than the number being so ... Read more

San Diego resale housing activity logged its strongest January in three years: And inventory declined somewhat, leading to a months-of-inventory figure that was just about half of what it had been in January 2008... continue reading at voiceofsandiego.org read more ... Read the ful ... Read more

A while back, just for giggles, I put a little Redfin price per square foot widget up near the lower right of the Econo-Almanac. Lately I've noticed an interesting pattern... that asking prices have turned up noticably even as selling prices continue to nosedive: read more ... Read the fu ... Read more

3,055 San Diego homes entered the foreclosure process in January. This is down from last spring's record-setting levels, but not by much in the grand scheme of things. The continued onslaught of mortgage default notices makes it clear that the three-month plunge seen in late-2008 was the ... ... Read more