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How This Week’s Fed Meeting Could Impact the Housing Market
By Mike Simonsen on March 18, 2024

There’s a big Federal reserve meeting this week, and we’ll learn more about the future of interest rates then. I don’t have any capacity to predict interest rates - I’m not convinced anyone...

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Data-Driven Housing Policy with AEI’s Ed Pinto
By Mike Simonsen on March 13, 2024

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Ed Pinto, senior fellow and co-director of the AEI Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), for a...

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Why Inventory Could Grow by 40% This Year
By Mike Simonsen on March 11, 2024

Available inventory of homes on the market is climbing and will continue to climb until we’re finally in an environment of declining interest rates. Inventory has been rising for two years...

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Inventory Is 19% Higher Than a Year Ago
By Mike Simonsen on March 4, 2024

In the face of growing supply of unsold homes on the market, we have to ask how much more inventory this market can handle before home prices start to decline. We’re at 19% year over year...

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Economic Trendspotting with Bloomberg’s Conor Sen
By Mike Simonsen on February 28, 2024

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Bloomberg’s Conor Sen to talk about the big economic trends shaping the housing market. Conor shares his views on...

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More Sellers, Fewer Buyers
By Mike Simonsen on February 26, 2024

Price reductions ticked up this week for the first time since November in the face of rising mortgage rates. Inventory is rising across the country as home buying affordability takes...

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Home Price Gains Slow as Mortgage Rates Rise
By Mike Simonsen on February 19, 2024

Are last year’s surprising home price gains evaporating now? As interest rates climb again, some of the price signals are softening. Inventory is climbing vs. last year, and home prices...

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Deep Dive on the Short-Term Rental Market with AirDNA’s Jamie Lane
By Mike Simonsen on February 14, 2024

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Jamie Lane, Chief Economist at AirDNA, for a deep dive into the fascinating dynamics of the short-term rental (STR)...

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Sellers Are Coming Back to the Market. Can Buyers Keep Up?
By Mike Simonsen on February 12, 2024

Each week for several months now, inventory levels of unsold homes on the market has been expanding compared to last year. Even as inventory declined this week, it’s growing compared to a...

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Are Rising Mortgage Rates Already Deterring Home Buyers?
By Mike Simonsen on February 5, 2024

Mortgage rates are back up over 7% this morning following very strong economic growth data. When the economy is stronger than expected, and job growth is stronger than expected, the bond...

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