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The Latest on the Distressed Housing Market with Daren Blomquist
By Mike Simonsen on December 4, 2024

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Daren Blomquist from Auction.com to talk about the state of the distressed housing market. About Daren Blomquist ...

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How Migration Is Dividing the Housing Market in Two
By Mike Simonsen on December 2, 2024

The important thing to know when tracking housing inventory in 2024 through next year is that the country is bifurcated. Inventory has built dramatically in the South, while at the same...

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Buying a Home Is Growing Even Less Affordable
By Mike Simonsen on November 25, 2024

With relentless mortgage rates and stubbornly high home prices, the mortgage payment on the median priced home in the US is now back up above the 2023 and 2024 levels for the first time...

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Insights Into the 2025 Housing Market
By Mike Simonsen on November 19, 2024

Even though this week there were 9% more newly pending home sales than the same week a year ago, home sales are ticking down for the season and look weaker than they did in October....

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The Housing Market Outlook for 2025 with HousingWire’s Logan Mohtashami
By Mike Simonsen on November 13, 2024

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Logan Mohtashami, lead analyst at HousingWire, to talk about his predictions for 2025. Logan looks at inventory...

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Housing Market Pauses for the Election
By Mike Simonsen on November 12, 2024

Overall this was a much slower week for the housing market than recent weeks have been. Inventory, new listings, sales, and prices all dipped this week. The autumn seasonal decline is upon...

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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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