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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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Inventory and Home Sales Showing Improvements Over 2022
By Mike Simonsen on November 13, 2023

New listings volume and the weekly sales volume are now running at a slightly better pace than the same week last year. Both have been below 2022 all year long. When we started the year,...

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Is This the Beginning of the End of the Housing Recession?
By Mike Simonsen on November 6, 2023

The big question on everyone’s mind is: when will home sales turn around? Are we on the cusp of a double-dip housing recession? Or are there signals that 2024 might see a recovery in the...

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Could Home Sales Finally Start To Grow Soon?
By Mike Simonsen on October 30, 2023

It’s the last week of October and available inventory of unsold homes in the US is still on the rise. This was the week last year when inventory finally peaked and started receding before...

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Reimagining New Home Construction with Veev’s Amit Haller
By Mike Simonsen on October 25, 2023

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Amit Haller, CEO and Co-Founder of Veev Group, to talk about how Veev has entirely re-imagined the centuries-old new...

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If Homebuyer Demand Is So Weak, Why Aren’t Home Prices Falling?
By Mike Simonsen on October 23, 2023

If homebuyer demand is so weak, why aren’t home prices falling?By now everyone knows that homebuyers are holding back in hopes of improving affordability. There were only 55,000 single...

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Homebuyers Hit the Brakes, Causing Unseasonal Growth in Inventory
By Mike Simonsen on October 16, 2023

Available inventory of unsold homes on the market continues to climb at its fastest clip all year. The total count of unsold single family homes grew by 9,000 this week, which is very...

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Fortune’s Lance Lambert on Economic Trends & the Housing Market
By Mike Simonsen on October 11, 2023

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Fortune editorial director Lance Lambert to talk about his insights and perspectives on the housing market. We...

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Mortgage Rates Continue To Climb, Deterring Potential Homebuyers
By Mike Simonsen on October 9, 2023

The same trends of the last few weeks are still dominant this week. Mortgage rates continue to climb. It’s not uncommon to hear rates quoted over 8% for a 30-year fixed mortgage....

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Inventory Builds, Putting Pressure on Home Prices
By Mike Simonsen on October 2, 2023

Available inventory of single family homes for sale rose another 1.3% this week. Even though that’s a slight deceleration from the last few weeks when inventory was climbing by nearly 2%...

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NAR’s Jessica Lautz Takes the Pulse of the Real Estate Industry
By Mike Simonsen on September 27, 2023

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Jessica Lautz, Deputy Chief Economist and Vice President of Research at the National Association of REALTORS®, to...

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