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The sluggish Southern California housing market took another hit in January, with sales plunging 17% from a year earlier, according to a report released Wednesday.
The six-county region’s median price rose only modestly, climbing 2% from January 2018 to $505,000, according to real estate data firm CoreLogic.
Besides the prior month’s 1% gain, January’s year-over-year increase in the median — the point at which half the homes sold for more and half for less — was the smallest since prices began their steady upward climb in 2012.
The median is now $32,000 below its all-time high reached in June and sales, clocking in at 12,665 last month, haven’t been this low in January since 2008.
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