Fortune Magazine’s 10 Worst Real Estate Markets for 2009.

by Joshua Dorkin on December 22, 2008

  

Everyone loves a top 10 list, but being a part of this one is not a mark of a city experiencing good financial times. Here’s a look at Fortune’s 10 Worst Real Estate Markets for 2009:

  1. Los Angeles, CA – Projected 24.9% drop in 2009
  2. Stockton, CA – Projected 24.7% drop in 2009
  3. Riverside, CA – Projected 23.3% drop in 2009
  4. Miami-Miami Beach, FL – Projected 22.8% drop in 2009
  5. Sacramento, CA – Projected 22.2% drop in 2009
  6. Santa Ana-Anaheim, CA – Projected 22.0% drop in 2009
  7. Fresno, CA – Projected 21.6% drop in 2009
  8. San Diego, CA – Projected 21.1% drop in 2009
  9. Bakersfield, CA – Projected 20.9% drop in 2009
  10. Washington, D.C. – Projected 19.9% drop in 2009

If these predictions are correct, we’re in for yet another really bad year to come. The brilliant minds running the government (sarcasm) better have some tricks up their sleeves because additional drops of this large a magnitude could be catastrophic!

BTW – Note that 8 of the top 10 worst are all in California . . . surprised?

Anyone got their own predictions?

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{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Robert December 23, 2008 at 6:15 am

California is clearly the most worst state for the real estate market. I am quite happy that I did not buy property in California three years back!

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2 Joshua Dorkin December 25, 2008 at 9:40 am

Hey Robert – It is probably a good thing you didn’t end up buying in CA 3 years back. Did you buy anywhere else?

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3 Taripre December 25, 2008 at 12:00 pm

I believe Florida and California are hit hard because of the home values, but here in Chicago, we’re getting slapped pretty hard also, prices are plunging and it doesn’t look good at all for ’09!

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4 Dave December 27, 2008 at 5:34 pm

Good blog post. I had heard about the top ten list Fortune put out. I am going to use this for a report tomorrow. Thanks.

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5 Tony Cartman July 20, 2009 at 4:38 am

I know that California has some trouble, but still this market can be profitable for those who search well houses in foreclosure. Numbers are bad for everybody

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6 Laurie Manny September 12, 2009 at 6:29 am

The California real estate market would be cooking right now if we had inventory to sell. What we have are a lot of frustrated buyers and little or nothing to sell them at the moment.

We need the bank to release the foreclosures to straighten out this mess.

Until that happens the numbers are all just screwed up.

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7 Joshua Dorkin September 12, 2009 at 8:50 am

Laurie -
Are you seeing your buyers getting financing for their purchases? I know of several people in SoCal who couldn’t sell their home for a LONG time due to financing issues on the buyer side.

Just curious . . .

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8 michael December 29, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Now its the end of 2010 and all the predictions were wrong; as usual. The drops were half as much as this and in some cases not at all. The drops were probably due, in part, to the hysteria predictions like this caused.

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