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Could Home Prices Turn Negative This Year?
By Mike Simonsen on February 18, 2025

Home price appreciation across the country is barely positive compared to last year at this time. Depending on how you measure it, home prices are about 2% higher on average across the...

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What’s Happening with Home Renovations
By Mike Simonsen on February 12, 2025

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Julie Kheyfets, CEO of Block Renovation, to talk about what’s happening with home renovations this year and beyond. ...

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Has Seller Growth Lost Momentum?
By Mike Simonsen on February 10, 2025

There are two trends that bubbled to the surface in this week’s housing market data. We talked last week about how the price reductions leading indicator has been growing more bearish for...

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Weak Demand Is Forcing More Home Sellers to Reduce Their Asking Price
By Mike Simonsen on February 3, 2025

There are some really interesting price trends happening across the country right now. I mentioned last week how weakness in demand had cause some of the measures for home price changes to...

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Zillow’s Take on the 2025 Housing Market
By Mike Simonsen on January 29, 2025

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Dr. Orphe Divounguy, senior economist with Zillow's Economic Research team, to talk about what’s on the horizon for...

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Will We See Home Price Declines in 2025?
By Mike Simonsen on January 27, 2025

Recently we’ve shared that inventory of unsold homes is growing, and that in recent weeks, home sales have faltered in the face of 7% mortgage rates. We’re going to focus today’s video on...

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Home Sales Are Stalled With 7% Mortgages
By Mike Simonsen on January 20, 2025

New contracts for home purchases are coming in very low this month. We counted 10% fewer home sales for the week than the same week a year ago.In the fourth quarter of 2024, sales were...

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Decoding the 2025 Housing Market with Bill McBride
By Mike Simonsen on January 15, 2025

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Bill McBride from Calculated Risk to talk about what to expect in the housing market in 2025 and beyond. About Bill...

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More Home Sellers, Fewer Sales
By Mike Simonsen on January 13, 2025

There were 45,000 new listings for single family homes across the country this week, which is a big jump. It’s 12% more sellers than a year ago. This is the trend I’ve been talking about as...

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Did Home Sales Momentum Fizzle in December?
By Mike Simonsen on January 6, 2025

The New Year’s week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. Those will start rebounding in next week’s data.The Christmas and New Year’s holidays...

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