Bay Area Housing Market News for 2025

The Bay Area Breakdown is a blog + newsletter that delivers Bay Area housing market news and insights every week. Subscribe today.

The Breakdown focuses on real estate market news, trends, and developments within the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area region.

This publication covers the following housing markets (counties): Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.

San Francisco Bay Area Housing Market News

The Breakdown delivers Bay Area housing market news and exclusive insights on a weekly basis. It’s authored by a veteran real estate reporter with more than 18 years of experience.

  • What it is: The Breakdown is a blog and newsletter rolled into one. You can read the reports online, or via the weekly emails you’ll receive. Or both.
  • What it covers: This publication provides San Francisco Bay Area housing market news. We cover local real estate trends, home prices, insurance concerns, and more.
  • Who it’s for: The Breakdown is designed for anyone with a vested interest in the Bay Area real estate scene, including buyers, homeowners, agents, and investors.
  • Who writes it: Brandon Cornett writes all of the content for this blog. A widely cited author/analyst, Brandon has reported on real estate trends for nearly 20 years.
  • How you benefit: The Breakdown gives you an easy way to keep up with Bay Area housing market news and developments, from an unbiased and trusted source.
  • How to subscribe: Click this link to open the subscription box, enter your email address, and choose a subscription model: monthly or annual. You can cancel anytime.

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Real Estate News We’re Covering in 2025

The San Francisco Bay Area is a unique real estate market in many ways. It’s expensive, highly competitive, fast-paced, and often suffers from supply shortages.

Because of this, anyone who’s involved with or connected to the Bay Area housing market needs to stay well informed. And that’s where we come in.

  • Home prices: Bay Area home values declined during 2024 and might not do much in 2025 (with the exception of Silicon Valley). We will continue to monitor this.
  • Market activity: The market has slowed considerably since the pandemic-fueled buying frenzy of a few years ago. Sales activity will likely remain sluggish in 2025.
  • Supply shortage: The Bay Area real estate market has gained inventory over the past couple of years. But overall, the shortage of listings continues to challenge buyers.
  • Insurance crisis: The Los Angeles wildfires have worsened a homeowners insurance crisis in all of California, including the Bay Area. We are tracking these developments.
  • Local trends: In addition to regional trends, we also provide news and updates for local markets like Silicon Valley, the East Bay, Wine Country, and individual cities.

In short, if it has to do with the Bay Area housing market, we will monitor, research, and report on it. We work hard to keep our readers up to speed on the most important real estate trends.

3 Good Reasons to Subscribe

Bay Area Breakdown is the best and easiest way to keep up with local real estate trends—and to understand how they might affect you now and in the future.

That’s the #1 reason for subscribing. Here are three more:

1. Unbiased, objective, and factual

Many sources that publish real estate market news for the Bay Area benefit or profit from home sales, and that makes them biased. You’ll never get the full story from such sources.

We are not associated with any real estate, mortgage, insurance, or escrow company. We publish unbiased, well-researched reports that are designed to inform rather than persuade.

We profit by serving our readers, rather than sugarcoating the market.

2. Clarifying and simplifying market trends

The Bay Area real estate market is large, diverse, and complicated.

The median home price ranges from $610,000 in Vacaville up to $3.4 million in Palo Alto. And that’s just one of many housing-related variables for this broad region.

The Bay Area also presents unique challenges for home buyers, including high prices, quick sales, and a lack of insurance options.

To make matters more confusing, this housing market changes constantly due to a number of overlapping factors. And the reasons for those changes aren’t always clear.

Our detailed but easy-to-understand reports will give you a clearer picture of what’s happening in the Bay Area real estate market—and how it affects you.

3. A convenient way to monitor the market

If you’re like most people, you can’t afford to spend hours every week researching Bay Area housing market news, trends, and developments.

And now you don’t have to.

Subscribe today, and you’ll receive all of the news you need to know, with minimal effort. You’ll get the weekly newsletter with a summary of recent trends. And you can read the blog online anytime you want.