The Federal Reserve raised interest rates this week for the first time since 2023, even as Berkeley’s market keeps appreciating at a level that seems to have little to do with what is happening in Washington. In this September 2026 Berkeley real estate market...
For most of the internet era, searching for a home meant the same ritual: set your budget, pick a number of bedrooms, check a few boxes, and scroll. Then the real work started — sifting through pages of results, opening listing after listing, digging for the details...
The California homeowners insurance market has begun to stabilize, but this is not the same as being fixed, and the Berkeley hills remain one of the harder places in the state to insure. On August 19 I sat in on From Crisis to Stabilization, a statewide market update...
Summer’s underlying economic data came in cooler than the headlines suggest, and Berkeley’s market is once again marching to its own drum beat. Below I walk through July’s inflation, jobs, and wholesale price reports, the Federal Reserve’s...
June economic data sent softer signals across the board: inflation cooled, hiring slowed sharply, and mortgage rates held roughly where they’ve been. None of that has loosened the Berkeley market the way the national numbers might suggest. Below I walk through...
