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Affordability, inventory, rates: An economist’s 2024 housing outlook

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Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner offers his 2024 forecast for interest rates, home values and the potential for a housing market recovery. Continue reading →

An economist teaches you how to answer the ‘rent vs own’ question

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It’s one of the most popular questions you’ll hear, especially from first-time homebuyers. Find out how to answer it expertly. Continue reading →

Why this economist says today’s market is not a do-over of 2008

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Now, although price growth through the pandemic period was clearly excessive, writes economist Matthew Gardner, fundamentally speaking, the two periods cannot be considered to be similar at all. Continue reading →

Windermere debuts zavvie-powered comparison tool for sellers

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Windermere Offers will allow people working with the brokerage’s agents to compare various options for selling their homes. Continue reading →

‘No housing bubble’: An economist’s top 10 predictions for 2023

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Cut through the online clutter and armchair quarterbacking of the real estate industry with these expert predictions from Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner. Continue reading →

Wrong predictions, rate jumps and what’s (maybe) still to come

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In as much as economists expected rates to rise this year, nobody anticipated how fast they would rise. So what went wrong? Matthew Gardener, chief economist for Windermere Real Estate, lays out what happened and what’s next. Continue reading →

An economist’s take on what can be done about housing affordability

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There are currently 45 million Americans aged between 25 and 34 — and most aspire to homeownership. However, according to Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner, the massive price growth many of us have benefitted from over the past sev… Continue reading →

What the early census numbers say about moving patterns

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There’s a widespread belief that Americans have all packed up and moved because of the pandemic. At face value, it’s quite credible, according to Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner, especially given the level of 2021 home sales. But… Continue reading →

How inflation actually supports buyer demand: Matthew Gardner

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Other than when home prices crashed with the bursting of the housing bubble, for more than 50 years, home price growth has outpaced inflation. According to Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner, this means we are offsetting high consum… Continue reading →