Ryan Lundquist opened his July market recap with a fair concession: no housing headline was going to compete with the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding. He's right, and honestly, the housing news wouldn't have led the broadcast anyway — because the biggest story in Sacramento real estate right now …

Sacramento is about to be back in the national spotlight for the darkest chapter in its history. According to Ryan Lundquist at the Sacramento Appraisal Blog, HBO has a series in the works — with Geena Davis attached — about Dorothea Puente, the boarding-house operator who murdered tenants …

For the first time in a long while, Sacramento price metrics came in higher than a year ago. Before anyone pops champagne or panics about a new run-up, the fine print matters — and this month the fine print is most of the story.

Key Numbers This Month

Short sales in the Sacramento region are up 31% this year. Here's the same fact stated another way: there were twelve more of them than last year. Both versions are true. Only one of them makes a scary headline.

That pairing comes from Ryan Lundquist at the Sacramento Appraisal …

Picture two houses on the same street. Same floor plan, same lot, same year built. One was remodeled three years ago; the other still has its original kitchen and the carpet to match. Not long ago, those two homes sold within a few thousand dollars of each other — buyers …

This week the Sacramento real estate corner of the internet got briefly distracted by a private island. A 5.6-acre spot out in the Delta listed for $39,000 — less than a used car — and the appraiser Ryan Lundquist used it to open a post this week — yes, partly …

Here's a conversation we have almost every week. A buyer who has been ready for a year tells us they're going to wait for rates to come down before they start looking. The trouble is, they've been waiting since rates were supposed to drop in 2024. Then in 2025. They're …