Despite relatively strong performance by the office sector so far, a lack of new housing construction combined with double-digit housing price inflation could undermine San Diego County's job market, according to a commercial real estate analyst.

Although job growth has been furious over the last seven year s, housing hasn't even begun to keep up, Russell Valone of MarketPoint Realty Advisors told the San Diego Building Owners & Managers Association at the Hyatt Islandia Hotel on Tuesday.

The percentage of households in California able to afford a median-priced home decreased by seven percentage points in April compared to a year ago, according to a report released June 6 by the California Association of Realtors.

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