{"id":57,"date":"2026-10-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/jenbergman-com\/2026\/10\/21\/southern-california-housing-stays-resilient\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:00:00","slug":"southern-california-housing-stays-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/21\/southern-california-housing-stays-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California Housing Stays Resilient"},"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\/jennifer-bergman\/economic-update-september-remotion-videos-36d5\" 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>By October 1, 30-yr mortgage rates reached the low-7% range, up from the mid-6% range at Late-Summer&#039;s end, shaping financing decisions locally.<br \/>\nIn Southern California, single-family prices stayed notably steady despite higher rates, while condos faced a tougher market and did not show the same stability.<br \/>\nRising insurance costs, bigger reserve funding needs, and required balcony work pushed HOA fees higher, and some buildings added special assessments recently.<br \/>\nThose added ownership costs weighed on buyers&#039; purchasing power in Southern California and made condominium sales tougher, making realistic pricing and negotiation especially important.<br \/>\nIn the current quarter, buyers and sellers were encouraged to focus on individual needs, neighborhood sales, and competing inventory instead of broader national headlines.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By October 1, 30-yr mortgage rates reached the low-7% range, up from the mid-6% range at Late-Summer&#039;s end, shaping financing decisions locally. In Southern California, single-family prices stayed notably steady despite higher rates, while condos faced a tougher market and did not show the same stability. Rising insurance costs, bigger reserve funding needs, and required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenbergman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}