But he said Inland Southern California, which is reeling from the boom-bust cycle in single-family home construction, will not soon benefit because renters prefer to live in apartments and condominiums closer to coastal job centers as long as those apartments are affordable.
However, Jeffrey Meyers, a real estate consultant in Orange County, said already the Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego apartment markets “have become so competitive that people are looking to western Riverside and San Bernardino counties as their next market.”