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Median Home Price Rises, Off $150,000 from Peak

Orange County’s median home price increased $10,000 in June, the first time prices here have gone up since November.

The median price of an OC home was $495,000 in June, according to La Jolla-based DataQuick Information Systems, a unit of Canada’s MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates.

Median prices here are down $150,000, or about 23%, from a year earlier. Last June’s $645,000 median price was the record high for the county.

Sales volumes in OC were off 27% from a year earlier, with 1,930 home sales in June. Sales were off 15% from May’s totals.

The median price of a Southern California home was $355,000 in June, a $15,000 drop from May and a 29% decrease from a year ago.

Southland sales in June were off 14% from a year ago, but up 3% from May.

Foreclosed homes represented 41% of all Southland sales in June. Jumbo loans made up only 16% of home loans in June, compared to 40% a year ago.

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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the former Editor-in-Chief and current Community Editor of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.

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