{"id":174206,"date":"2026-02-12T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:20:08","slug":"long-beach-among-least-affordable-cities-globally-for-homebuyers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174206\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Among Least Affordable Cities Globally For Homebuyers: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA &#8212; Three Southern California cities &#8212; Long Beach, Los Angeles and San Diego &#8212; are among the world\u2019s three least affordable locations for homebuyers, a new report has found, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2026-02-10\/la-long-beach-among-least-affordable-cities-for-homebuyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When the price of a standard house is compared to regular local salaries, Long Beach, L.A., San Diego and San Jos\u00e9 were among the five least affordable cities in the world, according to the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.remitly.com\/us\/en\/landing\/most-and-least-affordable-cities-to-buy-a-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">survey<\/a>, which was conducted in late 2025 by financial services provider Remitly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Long Beach is often seen as a more affordable alternative to LA. However, globally, it\u2019s still one of the least affordable cities to buy a home in,&#8221; the Remitly report states. &#8220;Single buyers, earning the average income, can\u2019t quite afford a third (31.7%) of the average home, thanks to pricey properties which have surged over recent years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA &#8212; Three Southern California cities &#8212; Long Beach, Los Angeles and San Diego &#8212; are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-174206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}