A New Geography analysis of 2010 U.S. Census data reveals that Americans prefer less dense suburban areas to crowded major cities. According to this report, 9% of population growth occurred in metropolitan areas with more than one million people during the 2000s, down from 15% growth in these areas during the 1990s. All remaining growth [...]

California is about to discover it has an oversupply of classic subdivision housing, according to a report released by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) analyzing demographic and construction trends in California’s metropolitan regions. Generation Y (Gen Y) individuals are gearing up to form households this decade, and developers anticipate a diminished demand for large single [...]

This article examines the financial viability of homeownership in the wake of the housing crash, and how the housing crash impacted ideas about mortgage spending and commuting.

This article analyzes how Baby Boomer dissavings will spur investment in real estate through 2025, and what industry professionals need to know to counsel potential investor-clients.

New construction starts have been trending down ever since the housing bubble burst. With plenty of excess inventory on the market, bona fide real estate owned properties (REOs) and shadow inventory alike, there have not been any obvious signals of a potential rebound in the short term. [For more information on California construction starts, see [...]

This article discusses the current residential vacancy rates in California and the pressure vacant properties place upon this decade’s real estate recovery.

Part II of this article series comments on the deterioration of suburbia in its current form and discusses the factors shaping suburbia’s future.

Part I of this article series comments on the coming depopulation of suburbia as the highly educated Generation Y and retiring Baby Boomers return to California’s urban cores.

California’s big cities are projected to lead the way in the state’s job recovery and the Bay Area is forecasted to be the starting point for the state’s employment resurgence. The Silicon Valley boom is no small part of that push. However, a bifurcated recovery is expected throughout California. In contrast to the state’s inland [...]

Where the buyers are Shadow inventory, meet the shadow households. Nearly one million households nationwide will be created in 2011 – roughly 130,000 in California alone – and start driving real estate sales and consumption in 2012, according to a prediction by industry analysts and IHS Global Insight. Generation Y-ers (Gen Y-ers) headline as the [...]