Brian Dane - Rocklin Real Estate Specialist

05/18/2026

Price change went negative one year ago, and it’s sort of been flattening in recent months. Or not intensifying. We see this with both the median sales price as well as Zillow’s index for Sacramento. More in my weekly blog post.

05/11/2026

Distressed sales are back. It's 2007 again. The market is about to implode. We're all going to die. That's what it sounds like online, but do the stats line up with those headlines? Well, there are actually more foreclosures happening today, so we need to talk about this, but the growth has been mod...

04/20/2026

The housing market isn't the same in every location. It's a good reminder that there isn't just one narrative that fits all markets. It's true in local markets also as the temperature might not be exactly the same for detached homes, condos, entry-level, high-end, etc...

03/03/2026

03/03/2026

The spring housing market is waking up. We’ve been feeling that since January, but it’s starting to show up a bit more in the stats now that we have two months under our belt in 2026. Pending contracts have been slightly stronger overall this year. Let’s keep watching.

02/11/2026

Just in case you woke up wanting to see median price change since in twelve local counties since 2012... I'm sharing this visual and many others at the Lodi Association of Realtors this morning.

01/14/2026

This month, 40% of builders reported cutting prices, while 67% reported using sales incentives such as mortgage rate buydowns, according to the leading survey of homebuilder sentiment.

"Affordability is the main constraint in the housing market currently, and builders are doing their part to bring more buyers into the fold by delivering low-priced new inventory to the market in a way that the existing home segment simply can’t," says Realtor.com Senior Economist Joel Berner. "Combined with lower mortgage rates, it is an especially attractive time for buyers to be searching for a newly built home."

01/13/2026

Home affordability has improved slightly lately in light of slightly lower rates and prices. According to CAR‘s affordability index, 28% of households can afford a median-priced home in Sacramento. This is a step in the right direction, but it’s still really low.

01/10/2026

Many sellers don’t want to acknowledge this due to lack of Forclosures, short sales, or bank failures. Stats don’t lie.

It's understandable to see, but still stunning. Sales volume has been lower today for longer than what we saw during the Great Financial Crisis.

12/25/2025