How to think about home prices for the rest of 2025
Home sales have continued to disappoint through the peak buying season and are only now just showing some growth over last year.
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Massachusetts set to bar home sellers from requiring inspection waivers
The policy prohibits sellers and agents from requiring or encouraging buyers to waive a home inspection as a purchase condition.
More home sellers and home sales in May
The risk for this market is mortgage rates going higher. Even as the stock market has rebounded, the bond market has kept rates high.
Home sales disappoint at the end of April
Weekly single-family home sales came in 8% below the same time last year, and condo sales came in 19% fewer.
Easter-driven home sales dip masks recent growth
Last week’s pending home sales fell to 68,000 single-family contracts, a Easter lull that marks the first sub-2024 weekly tally in six weeks.
DC’s housing market is shifting rapidly. Are federal layoffs driving it?
Altos data suggests the housing market dynamic in Washington, D.C., has shifted since the beginning of Trump’s second term.
6 charts that show storm clouds brewing over the spring homebuying season
The housing market is facing unprecedented uncertainty and volatility headed into the spring buying season. Recent reports and data signal that the impacts are setting in.
How are agents navigating the growing economic uncertainty?
Mortgage rates are down, but so is the stock market, leaving agents stuck in neutral as the height of the spring purchase market approaches.
First American: Home sales are weaker than they seem
First American’s Mark Fleming said the slowdown is tied to the mortgage rate lock-in effect and older homeowners who choose to age in place.
Will mortgage rates allow for ‘peak’ homebuying season?
It’s quite obvious that stubbornly high mortgage rates slowed down early season homebuyers in the first quarter of 2025. Our weekly pending home sales data continues to run about 3% below last year.