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Mike Simonsen

Mike Simonsen is the founder and president of real estate analytics firm Altos Research, which has provided national and local real estate data to financial institutions, real estate professionals, and investors across the country for more than 15 years. An expert trendspotter, Mike uses Altos data to identify market shifts months before they hit the headlines.
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How Realtors Should Talk to Buyers and Sellers in a Changing Market
By Mike Simonsen on June 29, 2022

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Jimmy Mackin, CEO of Curaytor, to talk about best practices for communicating with buyers and sellers right now, as...

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Another week of skyrocketing real estate inventory
By Mike Simonsen on June 27, 2022

The market added 25,000 homes to available inventory this week. That’s bigger than the model has predicted. It’s really fascinating to see how quickly this market can get us back to normal...

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How To Predict the Future of the Housing Market
By Mike Simonsen on June 22, 2022

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Logan Mohtashami from HousingWire to talk about the changing real estate market and the big economic issues of the...

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Home prices still at record highs, even as demand slows
By Mike Simonsen on June 20, 2022

Available Inventory of unsold homes on the market is climbing every week, very quickly. Many Americans are still buying homes of course, seemingly undeterred by the trends that those of us...

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Key Stats to Watch in a Changing Real Estate Market
By Mike Simonsen on June 20, 2022

So the world's financial markets are in turmoil. Stock markets are way down from their peak interest rates are rising. We have inflation and we have fears of future inflation, the crypto...

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How slow will the housing market get?
By Mike Simonsen on June 14, 2022

One thing that’s hard for me is to communicate how quickly the brakes hit this market but that we’re also still way below normal available inventory. Supply and demand still keeps us in a...

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What Real Estate Investors Should Know About Shared Housing
By Mike Simonsen on June 8, 2022

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Johnny Wolff, Founder and CEO of HomeRoom, to talk about HomeRoom’s innovative platform for matching renters with...

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Home sellers cutting prices as the market shifts
By Mike Simonsen on June 6, 2022

This last week was the Memorial Day holiday in the US and as usual, the housing market does a minor pause. There’s a bigger pause during the July 4th holiday week, but a little one for...

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The Real Estate Frenzy is Over
By Mike Simonsen on May 31, 2022

Even as inventory climbs each week, home prices are still very strong. The next few months of transition are going to be fascinating. Very hard actually to communicate.

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Housing inventory jumped 8% this week
By Mike Simonsen on May 23, 2022

Big 8% increase in inventory this week. We’ll take some time to see how unprecedented, or not, that move is. Home prices are strong - new record high actually. What’s going on out there?...

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