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Home Sales Are Up Over Last Year
By Mike Simonsen on November 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising...

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2025 Housing Market Trends with First American’s Mark Fleming
By Mike Simonsen on October 30, 2024

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Mark Fleming, chief economist at First American Financial Corporation, to talk about the major market dynamics that...

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The Surprising Resilience of Home Prices in 2024
By Mike Simonsen on October 28, 2024

We track inventory and home sales very closely around here, but to be honest, the biggest surprise to me this year has been the resiliency of home prices. Given the unrelenting mortgage...

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Which Metros Are Seeing a Surge in Sellers?
By Mike Simonsen on October 21, 2024

Despite the Florida hurricanes, and in the face of recently rising mortgage rates, unsold inventory of homes on the market climbed this week by about 1%. We’ve been expecting inventory to...

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The Great Stay: Why Homeowners Are Staying Put
By Mike Simonsen on October 15, 2024

About a year ago, I started noticing a parallel between the housing market and the labor market. Unemployment in the country is very low. Everyone has a job. The conventional wisdom for...

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Housing Market Recovery Threatened by Mortgage Rate Pop
By Mike Simonsen on October 7, 2024

Home sales and home prices have been improving for several weeks. Unfortunately, this period could be fleeting, because we had strong economic news last week. And ironically a really strong...

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Homes Sales Are Climbing With Lower Mortgage Rates
By Mike Simonsen on September 30, 2024

The rate of home sales is picking up, especially compared to last year at this time. The number of homes in contract across the country has risen for the last few weeks. Purchase mortgage...

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Why Aren't Home Prices Falling?
By Mike Simonsen on September 23, 2024

The U.S. housing market has boomed for years, with economic growth and cheap mortgages driving massive homebuyer demand - and rising prices - for more than a decade.And for years, people...

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Housing Demographics with John Burns’ Eric Finnigan
By Mike Simonsen on September 11, 2024

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Eric Finnigan, Vice President of Demographics Research at John Burns, to talk about the biggest themes and trends in...

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More Home Sellers Are Withdrawing Listings
By Mike Simonsen on September 9, 2024

While inventory of unsold homes on the market in each of the two last years headed higher during September and October due to mortgage rate spikes, we’re seeing a more normal seasonal...

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