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The coastal Southern California City of Los Angeles is better known by its initials, LA. With over 4 million residents, Los Angeles is the biggest city in California in regards to population and the second in the nation, after New York City. While the Los Angeles real estate market typically enjoys positive population growth, it doesn’t surpass the national growth rate. This can likely be attributed to the negative net migration that Los Angeles has been experiencing for the past 5 years.
It’s believed that a high cost of living and a lack of affordable housing in the Los Angeles housing market is the cause of the negative net migration. However, for a Los Angeles real estate investor who can afford to buy and own rental properties in the city, there is high rental demand. According to NeighborhoodScout, around 64% of LA residents are tenants, which means that buying a rental property in Los Angeles makes for a good real estate investment.
The economy is surprisingly not hindered by the slow population growth in Los Angeles. The job market continues to grow at a rate higher than the national. Even though Los Angeles is famous for being home to Hollywood and has been dubbed the Entertainment Capital of the World, its economy goes far beyond the entertainment industry. The city is actually part of the largest manufacturing center in the United States with over 300,000 manufacturing jobs in the Los Angeles-Glendale-Long Beach metro area. Other key industries in LA include banking and financing, healthcare, high-tech research and development, education, architecture, engineering, and both commercial and residential real estate construction.
The Los Angeles real estate market was named one of the Top 20 Markets to Watch in 2019 by the annual PWC real estate report. In the Pacific Region of the US, specifically, it comes in only second to Seattle in terms of overall real estate prospects.
