In the first half of 2008, as the global financial system was crashing, 27,283 Inland Empire homes were sold.

In the first six months of 2025, only 24,116 residences in Riverside and San Bernardino counties were bought, or 12% below the real estate market’s ugliest point.

This is a stark reminder, courtesy of my trusty spreadsheet, of the depths of the recent homebuying collapse using sales data from Attom. These stats track a broad swath of transactions – including houses and condos, both existing residences and newly constructed.

Think about how the pandemic era altered Inland Empire homebuying by examining some simple math: ranking first-half sales going back to 2005 .

The Inland Empire’s lowest sales count was this year. No. 2 is 2024. The third-slowest was 2023.

And bubble-squash

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