This is What Happened Next After Special Interests at U.C., Berkeley Retrieved their Power by John McNellis • Jun 28, 2019 • 43 Comments Hundreds of millions of dollars in lost opportunities, bungled projects, and out-right featherbedding.
California Panics about Losing Businesses and People (to Texas): What the Housing Market Fears Most is Cropping Up in the Data by Wolf Richter • Jun 24, 2019 • 236 Comments But Texans Say, “We’re Full.” And Californians, Buckling Under Housing Costs & Congestion, Tell Wannabe Leavers, “Just Do It”
Inflation by City, from Hot to Cool, from San Francisco to Chicago by Wolf Richter • May 10, 2019 • 87 Comments Here’s Where Americans Suffer Hot Inflation, But There Are Cool Spots Too
In July, I Stuck My Neck Out to See a Housing Market Turning Point in San Francisco Bay Area’s Sonoma County: Here’s an Update on My Neck by Wolf Richter • May 9, 2019 • 45 Comments Now even the surface of the market has softened, not just the underlying dynamics.
California’s Housing Bubble Counts on Blistering Population Growth, But it’s Fizzling by Wolf Richter • Apr 19, 2019 • 112 Comments Los Angeles population drops, San Francisco & Silicon Valley population rises least since 2010, North Bay’s population drops.
House Prices in 12 of California’s Most Expensive Coastal Counties Fell in March from a Year Ago. Here are the Charts by Wolf Richter • Apr 17, 2019 • 67 Comments Despite “the lowest interest rates in more than a year.”
What’ll Happen to Home Prices in Silicon Valley & San Francisco after IPOs Shake Loose All These Startup Millionaires? Last Two Times, We Got a Housing Bust by Wolf Richter • Apr 14, 2019 • 84 Comments Here’s how it works. Meanwhile, the media is busy publishing real-estate industry hype.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Why the Wave of Mega-IPOs Won’t Bail Out the San Francisco & Silicon Valley Housing Bubbles by Wolf Richter • Apr 7, 2019 • 48 Comments Why the Wave of Mega-IPOs Won’t Bail Out the San Francisco & Silicon Valley Housing Bubbles, Despite All the Hype.
Apartment Rental Market: Houston Rents Plunge Most; Southern California Lose Grip. New York, Washington DC, Chicago Down. “Mid-Tier” Cities Red-Hot by Wolf Richter • Mar 28, 2019 • 58 Comments Where Apartment Rents Fell & Where They Surged: March Update
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America Deflate Further by Wolf Richter • Mar 26, 2019 • 107 Comments San Francisco Bay Area House prices -4.3%, condos -5.7% since July, Seattle house prices -5.9%, most since Housing Bust 1; Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Portland, New York condos, Boston decline. Dallas ticks up.
