What impact is the bullet train coming to the High Desert having on home prices there?

Honestly, we won't give you a confident number on that one. A major transit project's effect on prices hinges on details we don't have: the real timeline, whether it actually gets built as planned, and how close a given neighborhood sits to a station versus just the corridor. The durable way to think about it: big infrastructure that shortens the commute to job centers can pull demand toward a previously cheaper area, and part of that gets priced in at the announcement, well before a train ever runs, on expectation alone. If the project slips or shrinks, some of that anticipatory premium can come back out. And a lot of what you see in a High Desert market that used to be cheap and has gotten steep may be affordability-driven migration (buyers pushed out to where the dollar stretches further) as much as the train itself. Separating the two is genuinely hard. The practical takeaway: don't overpay today purely on a future-infrastructure story. Buy a home that pencils on its own merits (price, payment, your time horizon, and things you can verify now like commute and schools) and treat transit upside as a bonus if it materializes, never the reason you stretched. We can't promise where that specific market heads, and neither can anyone quoting you a bullet-train number.