{"id":53,"date":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/mariaesparzarealestate-com\/2026\/10\/26\/california-home-gains-cool-sharply\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","slug":"california-home-gains-cool-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/california-home-gains-cool-sharply\/","title":{"rendered":"California Home Gains Cool Sharply"},"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\/maria-esparza-4\/gains-in-california-home-prices-continue-to-evaporate-remotion-videos-008a\" 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>California&#039;s avg. annual home-price gain slowed to ~2% through mid-2026, marking one of the softer statewide appreciation readings in recent years overall.<br \/>\nIn the prior four-year stretch ending Q2 2022, California prices advanced at ~10% annually, showing how dramatically appreciation cooled after cheap-money policies ended.<br \/>\nComparing those two four-year periods, California&#039;s appreciation pace slowed by 80%, dropping to ~2% from ~10% annually rather than signaling an outright price collapse.<br \/>\nCalifornia&#039;s gains shifted from national leader to back-of-the-pack, a major status change that cut bragging rights but created a better affordability backdrop.<br \/>\nFrom 1975 to 2018, California averaged ~8% annual home-price appreciation, the fastest among states, showing how unusual the current slower pace has been.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#039;s avg. annual home-price gain slowed to ~2% through mid-2026, marking one of the softer statewide appreciation readings in recent years overall. In the prior four-year stretch ending Q2 2022, California prices advanced at ~10% annually, showing how dramatically appreciation cooled after cheap-money policies ended. Comparing those two four-year periods, California&#039;s appreciation pace slowed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":558,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaesparzarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}