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Fastmarkets’ Dustin Jalbert on What Lumber Can Tell Us About 2024
By Mike Simonsen on December 13, 2023

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Dustin Jalbert from Fastmarkets RISI’s Wood Products team to find out what the lumber market can tell us about...

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Will Home Prices Continue to Grow in 2024?
By Mike Simonsen on December 11, 2023

A few months ago I published a video where I asked “how much will home prices gain by the end of the year?” Using a headline like that should come with a trigger warning. We could see that...

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Promising Signs for the 2024 Housing Market
By Mike Simonsen on December 4, 2023

It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with a few percent more homes on the market than last year. Home prices will be up over last year. And we should also end the year with more homes in...

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Why Home Sales Will Climb in 2024
By Mike Simonsen on November 27, 2023

By now if you follow the housing data closely, you’ll know that inventory of unsold homes on the market is up over 2022. Inventory climbed well into November, and new listings each week are...

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The Lowdown on the Lawsuits with HousingWire’s James Kleimann
By Mike Simonsen on November 22, 2023

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with James Kleimann, Managing Editor of HousingWire, to talk about the landmark Sitzer Burnett case and its potential...

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Housing Market Sees Unusual Inventory Gains in November
By Mike Simonsen on November 20, 2023

Inventory is still growing nationally the week before Thanksgiving. That’s very late in the season. Last week it looked like inventory had peaked for the year, which I announced in this...

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Inventory and Home Sales Showing Improvements Over 2022
By Mike Simonsen on November 13, 2023

New listings volume and the weekly sales volume are now running at a slightly better pace than the same week last year. Both have been below 2022 all year long. When we started the year,...

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Is This the Beginning of the End of the Housing Recession?
By Mike Simonsen on November 6, 2023

The big question on everyone’s mind is: when will home sales turn around? Are we on the cusp of a double-dip housing recession? Or are there signals that 2024 might see a recovery in the...

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Could Home Sales Finally Start To Grow Soon?
By Mike Simonsen on October 30, 2023

It’s the last week of October and available inventory of unsold homes in the US is still on the rise. This was the week last year when inventory finally peaked and started receding before...

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Reimagining New Home Construction with Veev’s Amit Haller
By Mike Simonsen on October 25, 2023

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Amit Haller, CEO and Co-Founder of Veev Group, to talk about how Veev has entirely re-imagined the centuries-old new...

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