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Have slightly lower mortgage rates stabilized the housing market?

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Mortgage rates have been slowly decreasing, but is this drop significant enough to influence our weekly housing data? Keep in mind that our weekend tracker reports provide insights months ahead of the reports most Americans typically read. Therefore, we closely monitor changes in our data trends whenever mortgage rates fluctuate. The last two weeks have […]

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It’s official: DOGE cuts are impacting the DC housing market

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When Elon Musk was given control over much of the federal government staffing levels at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, real estate professionals in Washington, D.C., wondered if the sweeping layoffs would impact the housing market. While everyone has taken a wait-and-see approach, it’s getting hard to deny that people are moving

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New-home sales drop by most since 2022 on poor affordability

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US purchases of new homes fell in May by the most in almost three years as rampant sales incentives fell short of alleviating affordability constraints. Sales of new single-family homes decreased 13.7% to a 623,000 annualized rate last month, a seven-month low, according to government data released Wednesday. That was below all estimates in a

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Homebuyers finally catch a break with more inventory

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Homebuyers in 2025 are finally getting some good news. 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. As someone who was concerned about home prices skyrocketing out of control between

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Home resales stay sluggish on affordability constraints

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US previously owned home sales rose slightly in May to a still-sluggish pace that continues to show a housing market constrained by poor affordability. Contract closings increased 0.8% to an annualized rate of 4.03 million last month, just the second advance this year, according to data released Monday by the National Association of Realtors. That

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Baby boomer plans put others’ homeownership goals on hold

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Caring wife. Positive aged woman giving a cup of tea to her smiling husband who is sitting at the table and using tablet Past expectations of a wave of homes to hit the market once senior citizens move out are fading, with a majority of baby boomers saying they won’t sell for at least another

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US homebuilder sentiment drops to lowest level since end of 2022

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Confidence among US homebuilders fell to the lowest level since December 2022 in June, with potential buyers deterred by high mortgage rates and anxiety about tariffs and the economy.  A gauge of market conditions from the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo slipped 2 points to 32 this month. Economists expected 36 in

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Builders scale back as costs, supply rise

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Housing permits fell in April, according to the National Association of Home Builders. This marks the fourth month in a row of depressed housing permits, a sign that builders continue to pull back on construction amid an anemic housing market. Nationwide permits to build single-family homes were down 4.7% through April compared to the same

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How to think about home prices for the rest of 2025

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The story for the housing market over the past three years has been, “Home sales are down, home prices are up.” Because inventory was so restricted after the pandemic, prices pushed higher even as demand weakened. That story may finally be inverting as unsold inventory of homes is now great enough that home prices are

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Elevated mortgage rates aren’t discouraging homebuyers

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Why aren’t home sales crashing as they did in 2022? Right now we have elevated mortgage rates, trade war uncertainty, rising property taxes and home insurance, terrible consumer confidence data and a downgrade of the government’s debt, among other factors. But, housing demand continues to hold up, surprising people who can’t explain why home sales

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