Buying a home is hard. For first-timers, it’s never been tougher

Homes in the lower tier of pricing are still 8 percent more expensive than at this time last year — and inventory has barely budged, according to a new analysis released Thursday by Zillow. Continue reading

Median home price tallies largest annual drop in more than a decade

Pandemic-era boomtowns and tech hubs fueled an annualized 3.3 percent drop, to $400,528, according to new data. “There’s this fear that everything will crash,” reports one Redfin agent in Boise, Idaho. Continue reading

The ‘Great Reshuffling’ is more complex than we realized

The dust has begun to settle from the great pandemic home-price boom and bust. An Intel deep-dive analysis sheds light on which markets have been hit hardest by falling prices — and why. Continue reading

Listing shortages kept prices from falling in Q1: Fannie Mae

The mortgage giant’s quarterly Home Price Index shows national home prices were up 1 percent during the first quarter of 2023 compared to the final three months of 2022. Continue reading

Poll shows most Americans still think it’s a bad time to buy

Consumer sentiment ticked up slightly in March as confidence in selling conditions improved and fewer people worried about losing their jobs. Continue reading

West Coast hit hardest as US home prices cool for 7th-straight month

Nineteen cities out of 20 tracked by the S&P CoreLogic Case-Schiller Index posted monthly declines in January, with the biggest decreases seen in San Francisco, Seattle and San Diego. Continue reading

After 3 months of improvement, homebuyer sentiment declines

Fannie Mae’s National Housing Survey shows Americans are feeling less secure about keeping their jobs, and nearly 8 in 10 think it’s a bad time to buy a home. Continue reading

Home price growth slows for 9th consecutive month in January

Annual home price growth dropped to 5.5 percent in the first month of 2023, but fell just 0.2 percent month over month, according to data released Tuesday as part of the CoreLogic Home Price Index. Continue reading

There are 1.25 million fewer million-dollar homes in America in 2023

The share of $1 million homes in the U.S. dropped from a high of 8.6 percent in June 2022 to approximately 7 percent in January, due in part to higher mortgage rates that have cut into homebuyer purchasing power. Continue reading

‘Modest’ recession could put a lid on 2023 home sales: Fannie Mae

Economic downturn could put a damper on a promising start to the spring homebuying season, but set the stage for mortgage rates to ease and for home sales to rebound in 2024. Continue reading