By Jonathan Lanser | The Orange County Register
Western U.S. real estate markets are “robust,” according to the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book analysis of regional economic conditions.
The Fed eight times a year publishes a compilation of local business snapshots from its 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. We checked into what the Fed’s San Francisco branch – which oversees California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii – had to say about its real estate markets as 2016 started.