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Monday through Friday (except state holidays) each week includes electronic format articles retrieved from newspapers or news services that report real estate related news in California and some national services. Coverage is for California newspapers that are available electronically via the Internet - and any significant related breaking news.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Top Stories
Home Sellers Outnumber Buyers By a Record Margin, Upping Buyers’ Bargaining Power
LILY KATZ, Redfin News
There were a record 47% more home sellers than buyers in December, giving the buyers who were in the market negotiating power. Mortgage rates have ticked down in recent days, which may boost the number of buyers entering the market in January.
Renters End 2025 With Improved Affordability Not Seen Since 2021
ORPHE DIVOUNGUY, Zillow Research
A new renter household earning the median income would have spent 26.5% of their household income on the typical U.S. asking rent in December, the lowest share since August 2021.
National News
Commercial Builders Are Losing Their Appetite to Build Anything but Data Centers
WILL PARKER, Wall Street Journal (Subscription)
Commercial real-estate construction faces headwinds from higher interest rates, material prices and tight labor—with spending projected to fall in 2026 for many property types.
Freddie Mac multifamily production volume passes $77 million
COLIN MCNAMARA, National Mortgage News
The government-sponsored entity announced Thursday its multifamily production volume hit $77.6 billion in 2025, up from $66 billion in 2024 and $49 billion in 2023. Freddie supported more than 577,000 affordable rental units across the country last year.
California News
San Diego shows what happens when a city actually lets builders build
ROGER VINCENT, Las Angeles
San Diego is building apartments at nearly twice the rate of Los Angeles, with new construction up 10%, while L.A.’s has plummeted 33% over three years.
S.F. didn’t make Zillow’s list of hottest markets — but one part of the Bay Area did
CHRISTIAN LEONARD, San Francisco Chronicle (Subscription)
Zillow’s predictions for the hottest housing markets of 2026 are out — and the San Francisco metropolitan area is way down the list. The top markets? Not coastal metropolises or Sun Belt getaways, mostly. Instead, the list includes some of the snowiest and more economically depressed places in the country: the likes of Buffalo, N.Y., Hartford, Conn., and Milwaukee.
Industry News
How strict are the MLSs? Here's how Compass saw it
TAYLOR ANDEWRSON, Inman (Subscription)
As it prepared to scale up its 3-Phase Marketing Strategy, which includes two off-MLS phases, Compass set out internally to get a clear view of the rules that MLSs — big and small — had in place that might intersect with the plan.
Real Estate Technology
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Property News
A public auction is about to offload nearly 1,000 California properties
TESSA MCLEAN, SFGate
Nearly 1,000 California properties are headed to a public auction in April, with some minimum bids starting at just $100. The parcels, all in default due to unpaid property taxes, constitute a collection of real estate, including vacant land, in Riverside County, part of the state’s booming Inland Empire.
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