No bottom for California city's home prices?

"Negative absorption" in Santa Maria

Santa Maria, Calif., a city in northern Santa Barbara County, is facing five years of negative absorption for residential real estate, meaning it will need fewer homes as people leave to find jobs elsewhere, CalculatedRisk reports, citing a local land developer as a source.

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