In November 1980, the Sacramento Bee ran a story about a local real estate agent named Rea Hook. Mortgage rates had climbed from around 8.5% in the late 1970s to 14.3% by the end of that year, buyers had gone home, and Hook's take on the whole mess was blunt: …

The most expensive single-family home for sale in Sacramento County right now is about a ten-minute drive from our office on Madison Avenue. The Governor's Fair Oaks home went on the MLS on August 24 at $7.5 million: eight acres, more than 12,000 square feet of living space, purchased in …

A seller we talked with in August had a clean, well-kept house in the east county and one question: why did the neighbor's place sell in four days in 2021 while hers had been sitting for three weeks with a single showing? Same street. Same floor plan. Her price wasn't …

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 …