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Altos Research Mike Simonsen Top of Mind Podcast Julie Kheyfets Block Renovations

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Julie Kheyfets, CEO of Block Renovation, to talk about what’s happening with home renovations this year and beyond. ...

National Data

There are two trends that bubbled to the surface in this week’s housing market data. We talked last week about how the price reductions leading indicator has been growing more bearish for...

National Data

There are some really interesting price trends happening across the country right now. I mentioned last week how weakness in demand had cause some of the measures for home price changes to...

Altos Research Mike Simonsen Top of Mind Podcast Dr. Orphe Divounguy Zillow

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Dr. Orphe Divounguy, senior economist with Zillow's Economic Research team, to talk about what’s on the horizon for...

National Data

Recently we’ve shared that inventory of unsold homes is growing, and that in recent weeks, home sales have faltered in the face of 7% mortgage rates. We’re going to focus today’s video on...

National Data

New contracts for home purchases are coming in very low this month. We counted 10% fewer home sales for the week than the same week a year ago.In the fourth quarter of 2024, sales were...

Altos Research Mike Simonsen Top of Mind Podcast Bill McBride Calculated Risk

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Bill McBride from Calculated Risk to talk about what to expect in the housing market in 2025 and beyond. About Bill...

National Data

There were 45,000 new listings for single family homes across the country this week, which is a big jump. It’s 12% more sellers than a year ago. This is the trend I’ve been talking about as...

National Data

The New Year’s week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. Those will start rebounding in next week’s data.The Christmas and New Year’s holidays...

National Data

All the data for 2024 is in, and it’s fair to say the housing market surprised again. There are two big trends that stand out to me as we launch into 2025.The first is affordability. Home...