Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Unlike a lot of forecasters in the mortgage world, a few months ago our projection included the notion that with strong jobs data and some inflation fears, the bond market could indeed push mortgage rates over 7%. Those scenarios are possible, and its going to be fascinating to see how the bond markets react to new administration policies.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Home sellers who did not list their properties on the MLS lost out on more than $1 billion in sale proceeds over the past two years, according to a study published Monday by Zillow. These off-market listings not only harm sellers, but they limit exposure to potential buyers, possibly deepening inequities that have long existed in real estate.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2025

Pending home sales declined 0.8% Data comes from the Pending Home Sales Index , a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings. “The data shows a continuation of small declines in contract signings despite inventory in the market increasing,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. The Northeast saw a 2.1%

Sales

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A report released Monday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) showed an increase in pending home sales for the fourth consecutive month. NAR’s Pending Homes Sales Index (PHSI) report is a forward-looking source that predicts home sales based on contract signings. The report found that pending home sales jumped 2.2%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What will the housing market look like in 2025? For a more comprehensive look, read our 2025 Housing Market Forecast covering home prices, home sales volumes and more. Last week, there were 9% more newly pending home sales than the same week a year ago and home sales are ticking down for the season.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

We counted 10% fewer home sales for the week than the same week a year ago. In the fourth quarter of 2024, sales were coming in at 5% to 10% more than the year prior. Those sales gains have evaporated and even reversed. This housing market is on hold until mortgage rates come down. There are 177,000 condos on the market.

Sales

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. Home sales are significantly better than they were last year at this time. more homes on the market than last year.

Sales

Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

While the housing market seems like the least of our financial worries right now as stock markets are melting down around the globe, we track housing here at HousingWire, so it opens the question: how quickly could we see impact in the housing market and in which data would we see it first? Which force wins?

Marketing

Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

households gives a misleading impression of housing market strength. If we look at existing-home sales as a percentage of the total number of households over time, we see that sales are down to the same levels as the early 1990s, just above 3%, and well below the long-run average of 4.1%, he said. of total households.

Sales

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Lower mortgage rates in September had a measurable impact on home sales. According to data released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), pending home sales in September jumped 7.4% An index reading of 100 equates to sales activity in 2001. “A compared to August and 2.6% year over year. and the West (64).

Sales

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. A few states have more homes on the market now than any time in the last eight to 10 years.

Marketing

Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

In walking back policies designed to boost participation in foreclosed property sales for nonprofit and government bodies, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) said that policies put in place in 2022 that restrict certain sales to these entities for a 30-day period have produced mixed results at best and will now be rescinded.

Sales

Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

After a very disappointing first quarter with home sales failing to climb over 2024s already anemic levels, signs are finally emerging in March that weve turned the corner to have some growth. This weeks pending home sales count came in at just under 69,000 single-family homes, which was 2.3% Home sales arent strong, of course.

Sales

Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2025

Headlines that call Cape Coral, Florida , the “worst housing market in America” and liken it to precursors of the 2008 financial crisis have garnered discussions across the real estate industry. That surge made the area one of the fastest-appreciating housing markets in the country. A pullback was not only expected — it was inevitable.

Agents

Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Redfin data released Monday shows that February home sales in Altadena and Pacific Palisades were down significantly from the same month a year ago, placing another layer of devastation on the housing markets in these communities. Redfin’s report reviewed home sales in both areas during the month of February.

Sales

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The housing market got some much needed relief in the fall when mortgage rates began to drop, but it was short lived. The turbulence in rates has trickled down to individual markets like Cincinnati, where real estate agents say they dont know what to expect from sale to sale. That has really boosted up a lot of our sales.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

As the industry moves toward faster, more digital-first transactions, AI is playing a pivotal role in redefining how agents operate, market, and compete. Traditionally, preparing a property for market has been time-consuming, expensive, and deeply fragmented. and star of Million Dollar Listing New York.

Marketing

Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

housing market has shown signs of slowing, demand remains strong in key Midwest and Northeast cities, where homes are selling weeks faster than the national average, according to Realtor.com s Hottest Markets Report for February. There’s still a lot of first-time homebuyers in the market too. They keep the market healthy.

Marketing

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

For-sale inventory of single-family homes is up 33% from a year ago. New pending sales are also on the rise, with the 60,000 homes going under contract last week representing a 9% increase from the same week last year and an 11% increase from the same week in 2022. 18, when the Federal Reserve lowered benchmark rates by 50 bps.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

housing market is anything but stable right now and residents are feeling it. housing market using weekly data from Altos, which includes more than 60 different data points on every metro area in the country, to see how employment is changing the housing market. ’s job market. more homes on the market than 2024.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

housing market is experiencing its largest-ever imbalance between home sellers and buyers, with an estimated 1.9 Two years ago, the market favored buyers. The number of sellers is measured by active MLS listings, while buyers are estimated using a model based on pending sales and average buyer timelines. That’s a 33.7%

Marketing

Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Despite the frequency of departures, real estate agents in the state say the housing market remains strong. On the balance, there are still more buyers with their eye on a purchase than there are houses on the market. Statewide, the housing market has a 90-day average Altos Market Action Index score of 44.18 as of Jan.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

The housing market continued to cool in May, with buyer leverage increasing across many regions of the country, according to a new survey from The Real Brokerage. and Canada — points to softening transaction activity and a shift in market power toward homebuyers. Another 29% said the market is balanced. in May, down from 47.8

Marketing

Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2025

In 2022, we experienced the most significant decline in home sales ever when mortgage rates soared from 3% to 7%. I’ve observed that our weekly Housing Market Tracker data improves when mortgage rates move from 6.64% toward 6%. However, we have not yet seen similar growth in sales this year. Here’s why.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

While the current focus is rightfully on containing the blazes and protecting residents, its worth taking stock of where housing markets stand in the affected parts of the Los Angeles metro area. LAs housing market has largely stabilized after the turbulence of the post-pandemic years and the rapid rise of mortgage rates beginning in 2022.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

As the real estate industry faces unprecedented transformation, Century 21 Real Estate has stayed active through aggressive franchise growth, market consolidation and engagement with evolving homebuyer demographics. Go back to 2017 — the top 1,000 companies across the country held like 45% or 46% of the overall sales volume.

Industrial

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

If there are too few homes for sale, they dont have to be affordable to everyone, they only have to be affordable to a few people. At that time in the fourth quarter, home sales picked up and home prices did too. If we spend any amount of the year at or near 6%, I expect that the inventory, sales and price trends will reverse.

Sales

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

New home sales grew over last month in the latest Census report , but homebuilders are now facing a supply issue their inventory is building up. Monthly new home sales have been stagnant for the past two years. When mortgage rates decline, sales improve, but it becomes more challenging for builders and buyers when rates rise.

Residential

Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2025

Housing inventory growth has been a blessing for the existing home sales market, cooling price growth and giving homebuyers a bit more advantage in 2025. However, I believe we need to separate the existing home sales market from the new home sales market to know how to understand what’s going on.

Construction

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2025

Across the country, real estate industry observers are discussing a possible shift to a buyer’s market. “On On the whole, the national market has gone back to balanced,” says Kara Ng, a senior economist at Zillow. We’ve seen sellers return to the market in bigger numbers than buyers this year and sales in many parts of the U.S.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2025

Active housing inventory is returning to the levels we experienced before the pandemic, which means the chaotic and unhealthy housing market of the last several years is finally a thing of the past. For the housing market to remain functional for decades to come, this adjustment was necessary. million and 1.93 million to 4 million.

Sales

Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2025

But if a deal comes together in 2025 — which has been marked by M&A activity — it would complete a meteoric rise for Compass, which is now the largest brokerage in the country by sales volume. eXp (274.4%), Fathom Realty (194%) and Compass (188.9%) lead the way in growth in market share by sides between 2020 and 2024. For SERHANT.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The key points of this report indicate that the Federal Reserve has overlooked the housing market for years. The existing home sales market does not align with their dual mandate of ensuring stable personal consumption expenditures (PCE) or consumer price index (CPI) prices, as these measures account for rent. percent (10.6

Construction

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Rising housing inventory levels in 2024 may not be the positive sign of market health that they appear to be. Rising supply is one of the housing market highlights of 2024, according to HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami , who said that housing inventory is approaching levels seen in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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