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National Data

Any sales growth momentum in the real estate market we might have had early in the year is gone. New home sales contracts are coming in pretty consistently fewer than last year - 4.9% fewer...

National Data

Mortgage rates have come down with recent good inflation news, but rates are still higher than they were a year ago and higher than they were 6 months ago. How will consumers respond as...

National Data

Is it darkest before the dawn? If we look at the housing market data right now, things look the most bearish they've been all year. And yet, really good inflation data came in last week,...

Altos Research Mike Simonsen Top of Mind Podcast Terry Loebs Pulsenomics

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Terry Loebs from Pulsenomics for a deep dive into forecasting home prices and the housing market. Terry has been at...

National Data

Nationally, the housing market indicators have been slow for several months now. There have been a few markets though that have defied the national trends where inventory has stayed tighter...

National Data

The last week of June is typically the peak of the home buying season, when activity and prices start their seasonal decline. So this first week of July, I'm looking at what we can we see...

Altos Research Mike Simonsen Top of Mind Podcast Matt Graham MBS Live Mortgage News Daily

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Matt Graham from MBS Live and Mortgage News Daily. A former loan originator, Matt is one of the foremost technology...

National Data

Inventory grew by almost 14,000 homes this week. That’s a pretty solid number, but actually fewer than our model had predicted for the week. Are sellers backing off?Every week Altos...

National Data

I’ve been highly tuned in looking for signals that the housing market is slowing. By now everyone knows that unsold inventory of homes on the market is climbing. But is that unsold...

Product Features

We’re excited to announce the availability of Pending Sales data, our clearest signal to date of future home sales. You'll find Pending Sales data in Advanced Analytics, Altos’ data...