Tangentially speaking, what does say about Bay Area housing? Anecdotally, I used to look at Google's performance as an indicator on South Bay housing prices.
Rents are still the same but with 1-2 months free deal (which translates to around a few hundred dollars per month down from pre-covid).
Artificially only in the sense that most people who would have been selling their house right now are cancelling their plans due to the pandemic, not some sort of organized conspiracy.