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US home equity has reached new heights. What happens next?

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Gains in household real estate equity have far outpaced growth in U.S. mortgage debt, according to new numbers from the Federal Reserve board. Continue reading →

Home sales have so much further to fall in 2023, Goldman Sachs says

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House purchases are expected to plummet further in the closing months of the year, and the recovery may not pick up speed until 2024, according to a new forecast from the investment bank. Continue reading →

Is the summer rush obscuring a deeper housing slowdown?

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The seasonal summer boom in the housing market has gone head-to-head with dramatically cooling market conditions. The latest data reflects the market appears to be “losing steam.” Continue reading →

Housing is cooling. In some places, rents have yet to get the memo

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In more than half of America’s largest cities, rents continue to post double-digit annual growth. And in some cases, they’re speeding up, according to Zumper’s most recent report. Continue reading →

Home sales projected to fall 16.2%, Fannie Mae says in new forecast

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In projections released Monday, economists expect 5.78 million homes to change hands this year, representing a 16.2 percent decline from a year ago — a steeper drop than the 15.6 percent pullback forecast in July. Continue reading →

Following 6-month slowdown, the home-sale boom may finally be over

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Home sales were down 19 percent year over year in July, a sign the pandemic-era boom in housing demand may be in the rearview mirror, according to new data released Monday by Redfin. Continue reading →

After a decade of uninterrupted rise, Zestimates are dropping

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“While July’s housing market data update is big news, and could get first-time buyers’ hopes up, the future is unlikely to bring meaningful improvement to housing affordability,” Zillow’s latest market report reads. Continue reading →

Home price growth is scaling back, but not everywhere at once: NAR

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Single-family homes saw a double-digit annual rise in sale prices in 148 of 185 metro markets in the second quarter, but overall numbers point to a housing market in the opening stages of a cooldown, according to a report. Continue reading →

More people than ever ask Google: ‘Will the housing market crash?’

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Interest in the housing market has piqued on Google, with searches for whether a crash is imminent shooting up in 2022. The spike suggests homeowners are nervous about their market timing. Continue reading →

Home prices down from peaks in quarter of nation’s top 50 markets

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Falling sales are driving inventory growth, bit it will take more than a year at the current rate for listings levels to get back to normal, according to Black Knight’s latest monthly Mortgage Monitor Report. Continue reading →