{"id":60,"date":"2026-09-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:00:00","slug":"climate-risk-costs-after-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/climate-risk-costs-after-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Risk Costs After Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/joanna-lopez\/quietly-inflating-housing-remotion-videos-9aef\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Santa Clara County, homes with severe or extreme climate risk were priced at 78% of lower-risk homes on a price per sq-ft basis.<br \/>\nThose higher-risk Santa Clara County listings also drew 48% more views per listing, showing that buyer attention stayed strong even when climate exposure was greater.<br \/>\nSanta Clara County stood out because buyer interest stayed elevated even though severe or extreme risk homes carried a clear price discount versus lower-risk properties.<br \/>\nFor Santa Clara County buyers, purchase price was not the only factor worth weighing; future insurance costs and coverage availability also mattered before closing.<br \/>\nIn Santa Clara County, a higher-risk home could still make sense for affordability or lifestyle, as long as buyers made an informed choice.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Santa Clara County, homes with severe or extreme climate risk were priced at 78% of lower-risk homes on a price per sq-ft basis. Those higher-risk Santa Clara County listings also drew 48% more views per listing, showing that buyer attention stayed strong even when climate exposure was greater. Santa Clara County stood out because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}