The Siracusa Report:
Antelope Valley New Housing Market Trends

Aside from its strategic role as the nation’s incubator of cutting edge aviation and aerospace technology, the Antelope Valley has long been regarded as a key provider of affordable housing for the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Situated an hour’s drive north of downtown Los Angeles, the Antelope Valley is accessible by freeway or rail line and thousands of commuters traverse these routes daily to jobs scattered throughout the northern Los Angeles County region.

In recent decades, the Antelope Valley communities of Lancaster and Palmdale have matured into growing urban job centers with their own business and industrial parks, shopping centers, a regional mall, as well as rapidly growing medical and hospital facilities.  Also, vital to the local economy are the historic military and aerospace landmarks of Plant 42 where legendary civilian and military aircraft have been assembled and Edwards Air Force Base, America’s test center for new military aircraft.

20 Years of Continuous Monitoring

For more than 20 years, The Siracusa Company has been providing continuous quarterly audits for all active new home tracts in the Antelope Valley region. This quarterly publication provides residential and commercial real estate developers, appraisers, lending institutions, real estate investment trusts, and others with accurate, up-to-date and objective information regarding housing development activity, pricing, sales, inventory, and other performance measures of this marketplace.

Learn More About the Market

The Antelope Valley edition contains instructive tables and graphs, which illustrate specific components of the market, such as active housing projects, pricing and absorption trends, sales by plan and price range, sales by square footage range, and inventory levels. We further supplement the report with current and historical information on building permits and a section summarizing future projects, such as those under construction, but not yet open for sales and others which have a probability of starting in the months ahead.

A key aspect of the Antelope Valley edition of The Siracusa Report is the arrangement of the data into geographic submarkets, which uniquely reflect the market segmentation of this high desert region. At the broadest level, our submarkets include the major communities of Lancaster and Palmdale, as well as the small, unincorporated community of Rosamond, situated in Kern County, just north of the Los Angeles County line. Beyond this, a bonus feature is the arrangement of our Lancaster and Palmdale data into east and west components, allowing for more precise understanding of local market segmentation with respect to active projects, sales, pricing, inventory, etc.

Frequency of Publication

The Antelope Valley edition is published four times a year in the months of February, May, August, and November. If you would like to purchase a single issue or an annual subscription, please download our order form.