Who is buying homes where

Each year the California Association of Realtors looks at who are buying homes where. One study that is conducted is the surname report. By reviewing the county recording records the Association determines the most frequent surnames buying homes. It takes a year or so to complete the compilation, subsequently, the findings released last week were from 2005.

In Sacramento County the top homebuyer’s name came from India and was Singh. The second most common was Vietnamese, Nguyen. Third was Garcia and Smith was fourth. Other most frequent names were Lee, Tran, Johnson, Lopez, Martinez, Gonzalez and Hernandez.