{"id":242,"date":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","slug":"california-housing-market-settles-into-steadier-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/18\/california-housing-market-settles-into-steadier-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"California Housing Market Settles Into Steadier Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sean-reid\/california-housing-market-forecast-for-the-next-2-years-2026-2028-remotion-videos-e80c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>California home prices are expected to rise modestly through 2028, with yearly gains around ~3% to ~4%, signaling steadier growth instead of another surge.<br \/>\nActive listings reached ~156.3K homes, giving California buyers more choice and less urgency as available supply is expected to keep building through 2027.<br \/>\nAffordability stayed the biggest hurdle: only ~18% of California households qualified for a typical mortgage, \u2193from ~31%, keeping entry-level homes highly competitive.<br \/>\nHomes were selling near ~100% of asking price, while 30-yr fixed rates hovered near ~6% and were expected to stay in that range.<br \/>\nLarge urban areas like Los Angeles County may need until after 2028 to regain earlier sales pace, while broader California conditions point to predictability.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California home prices are expected to rise modestly through 2028, with yearly gains around ~3% to ~4%, signaling steadier growth instead of another surge. Active listings reached ~156.3K homes, giving California buyers more choice and less urgency as available supply is expected to keep building through 2027. Affordability stayed the biggest hurdle: only ~18% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}