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California faces housing crisis: "No one is buying homes"
MSN ^ | 6/13/25 | Story by Giulia Carbonaro

Posted on 06/13/2025 10:20:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz

After four consecutive months of year-over-year inventory increases, California is now solidly a buyer's market, which means the supply of homes is greater than the demand for properties in the state.

That is happening in part because, as real estate analyst Nick Gerli put it, "no one is buying homes in California." Home sales in the Golden State are hovering just below the lows of the Great Recession, according to a recent report by Realtor.com, as sky-high prices and elevated mortgage rates keep buyers on the sidelines of the market.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; housing; realestate; realty
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1 posted on 06/13/2025 10:20:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

No one wants to pay 1-2 million for a 3-4 bedroom house that’s why.


2 posted on 06/13/2025 10:21:50 AM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: Lazamataz

No one can find a homeowner’s insurance policy.


3 posted on 06/13/2025 10:23:24 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Lazamataz

In all seriousness, when you clear out tens of thousands of illegal migrant families, a lot of homes go vacant. And then the law of supply and demand kicks in.

I’ve been arguing since 2023 that once we start deporting illegals en mass, house prices will plummet in areas most affected. e.g. California.


4 posted on 06/13/2025 10:24:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Lazamataz

They see the amount asking add in property taxes and insurance and realize even bill gates would think twice.


5 posted on 06/13/2025 10:25:02 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: Lazamataz

Well this also is obviously Trumps fault


6 posted on 06/13/2025 10:25:52 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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Have prices gone down ?


7 posted on 06/13/2025 10:25:58 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Lazamataz

Californians are buying homes, just not in California.


8 posted on 06/13/2025 10:26:17 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: escapefromboston
Have prices gone down ?

The less the demand, the more the prices go up.

9 posted on 06/13/2025 10:27:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah who’d want to live in this rathole..I live here and if it weren’t for the fact that the majority of my family is here I would have moved to Florida a long time ago


10 posted on 06/13/2025 10:27:18 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MrRelevant

“””Well this also is obviously Trumps fault”””

The only reasonable explanation for this real estate crash is...ORANGE MAN BAD


11 posted on 06/13/2025 10:27:23 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: cuban leaf
> In all seriousness, when you clear out tens of thousands of illegal migrant families, a lot of homes go vacant.

There is a reason virtually all of those in real estate and housing are rabid leftist Democrats.

12 posted on 06/13/2025 10:27:40 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: Lazamataz

You don’t own homes anymore.

You rent them from the state.


13 posted on 06/13/2025 10:29:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Lazamataz

I looked at prices in Austin, Texas on realtor.com.

Athens, GA, Greenville, SC and Nashville, TN also have some pretty fancy prices.

Before buying any house, meet with your potential neighbors. You’re buying more than sticks and concrete.


14 posted on 06/13/2025 10:29:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Lazamataz

If they can’t sell their house in Kalifornia, then they probably won’t be able to move to Arizona, Texas, and other battlefront states trying to stay or switch to red.


15 posted on 06/13/2025 10:29:52 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Lazamataz

When you fill up your state to the rim with illegal aliens, let wildfires burn down thousands of homes, make people jump through red tape to rebuild them, enforce ridiculous environmental conditions to land,construction and materials, is it any wonder no one can afford houses except rich democrat-funding movie, tv and rock stars?


16 posted on 06/13/2025 10:30:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: InsidiousMongo

Not many can afford to pay 1-2 million for a 3-4 bedroom house.


17 posted on 06/13/2025 10:32:31 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: cuban leaf
In all seriousness, when you clear out tens of thousands of illegal migrant families, a lot of homes go vacant. And then the law of supply and demand kicks in.

Even if the only thing that Trump did was to close the borders, this was going to happen anyway.

Millions of Californians are leaving the state. So if the borders are closed, no one is buying their homes.

So far, Trump has not been able to deport that many people. Obama beat him in that department.

18 posted on 06/13/2025 10:32:58 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Labyrinthos

There is a simple rule in real estate.

Every house can be sold.

The price just needs to drop low enough to meet the market.


19 posted on 06/13/2025 10:34:05 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Much of California is still pretty pleasant physically. The commercial areas of Los Angeles itself have been hard hit by tents and Amazon though.

California still has some pretty good jobs to be had.


20 posted on 06/13/2025 10:34:12 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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