{"id":103,"date":"2026-10-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:00:00","slug":"california-home-gains-cool-sharply-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/california-home-gains-cool-sharply-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"California Home Gains Cool Sharply | If You Think It&#8217;s Expensive To Hire A Professional; Wait Till You Hire An Amateur!"},"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\/zana-l-cooper-410790\/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":9,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}