{"id":31,"date":"2026-10-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/sheidarealestate-com\/2026\/10\/05\/california-212k-income-to-buy-a-home-sheida-rezazadeh-real-estate-planner-sres-broker-associate\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:00:00","slug":"california-212k-income-to-buy-a-home-sheida-rezazadeh-real-estate-planner-sres-broker-associate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/california-212k-income-to-buy-a-home-sheida-rezazadeh-real-estate-planner-sres-broker-associate\/","title":{"rendered":"California: $212K Income to Buy a Home | Sheida Rezazadeh- Real Estate Planner, SRES, Broker Associate"},"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\/sheida-rezazadeh\/california-house-income-remotion-videos-e7e5\" 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>A finance expert said California&#039;s median home price sits near $930K, while households need ~$212K yearly to compete, far above the typical ~$116K income.<br \/>\nHe argued the squeeze is real: steady jobs, respectable salaries, and years of savings still may not get many California families through the door.<br \/>\nIn the Bay Area, the same expert placed a typical home near $1.4M, reinforcing his view that ownership increasingly feels like a luxury commodity.<br \/>\nSaving more, reducing debt, or moving farther from expensive job centers may help some buyers, but he said budgeting alone cannot close every gap.<br \/>\nHis closing point was that California affordability now hinges on who the state still works for, as ordinary working families risk being priced out.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A finance expert said California&#039;s median home price sits near $930K, while households need ~$212K yearly to compete, far above the typical ~$116K income. He argued the squeeze is real: steady jobs, respectable salaries, and years of savings still may not get many California families through the door. In the Bay Area, the same expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheidarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}