Active listings climb as the end of 2024 nears
Months of supply edged up 0.6% year over year to 4 months, indicating a balanced market and cooling competition.
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The homebuilders’ 2025 supply and demand problem
New home sales grew in the latest Census report, but homebuilders are now facing a supply issue — their inventory is building up.
Housing market data positive despite Powell’s Grinch act
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell played the Grinch last week, but there are plenty of positive signals in the housing market data headed into 2025.
Two charts that explain why Texas housing markets have stalled
Relatively cheap housing, low taxes, looser COVID-19 restrictions and an influx of major employers turned Texas housing markets into hotspots after the pandemic began in March 2020.
Investor purchases are sinking with the housing market at large
According to data from CoreLogic, investor purchases have tracked closely with consumer home sales, and the share of home sales attributable to investors is down as well.
Trade groups push for flood insurance extension ahead of potential government shutdown
With a federal government shutdown looming, housing and insurance groups are urging an extension of the National Flood Insurance Program.
Housing inventory is down everywhere except in pandemic hotspots. Here’s why.
Housing inventory shortages have stifled the market for years, but supply is rising in states that experienced inbound migration spikes during the pandemic.
New Hampshire’s hot housing market has the state in crisis mode
The state’s population and economic growth are contributing to a housing crisis, which could spill into an economic crisis if action isn’t taken.
All those 2025 mortgage rates forecasts are now wrong
It’s late December so all the 2025 mortgage rate forecasts have been published. Unfortunately, all of them are already wrong.
Powell’s remarks shoot mortgage rates higher
Remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Powell during the Q&A presser sent the 10-year yield and mortgage rates higher.