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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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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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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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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Altos Research Mike Simonsen Top of Mind Podcast Logan Mohtashami
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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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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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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Altos Research Mike Simonsen Top of Mind Podcast Mark Fleming First American Financial Corporation
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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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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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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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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