The price gap between new and existing homes fell to a record low in the second quarter of 2025 — making newly built properties a more affordable option for many buyers, according to Realtor.com’s quarterly new construction report released Thursday. The nationwide premium for new homes dropped to 7.8% as builders held prices steady while […]
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DALLAS, TX — August 7, 2025 — HousingWire Data, the enterprise data division of HW Media, has launched Sold Intel, a new product offering that brings transaction-level clarity to the housing market. Sold Intel joins the platform’s existing datasets – Listings Intel and Pending Intel – offering clients a more complete view of the real estate
The U.S. housing market is entering a new phase defined less by competitive bidding and more by financial stress and practical necessity, according to a second-quarter Bright MLS agent survey released Friday. The findings reveal a marked departure from previous years’ demand-driven trends, with both home buyers and sellers increasingly motivated — or discouraged —
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U.S. homeowners earned a median profit of 50% on home sales in the second quarter of 2025, according to an ATTOM analysis released this week. That figure marked a slight uptick from the 48.9% figure in the first quarter, but it was down from 55.6% during the second quarter of last year. Median home sale
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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Tuesday released a new interactive tool that aims to give members monthly insights into housing affordability, home-price trends and economic indicators at the metro level. The tool, known as the Market Statistics Dashboard, is available exclusively to NAR members. According to the trade group, the dashboard includes localized
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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. But local experts and data suggest the reality is far more nuanced. While a recent article from The Wall Street Journal highlighted falling home prices,
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It’s been a strange season for the housing market, caught somewhere between post-pandemic exhaustion and pre-election caution. And yet, in the quiet shuffles of financial markets and whispered policy pivots in Washington, signs are emerging that something may be stirring beneath the surface. Just last week, mortgage rates unexpectedly improved by as much as 0.25%,
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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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U.S. consumer sentiment toward the housing market improved in May and reached its highest level since November 2024, according to Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) rose 4.3 points to 73.5 last month, driven by increased optimism about home buying and selling conditions and expectations that mortgage rates may fall in the
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The onset of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 set off a wave of domestic migration that reoriented housing markets across the country, turning some metro areas into boomtowns and sinking a number of others. The prevailing narrative around this phenomenon took on a life of its own — a mass exodus from urban cities in
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