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And 28 were down from their peaks in prior years, led by Austin -27% and Oakland -25%.
A Cavendish Maxwell study reports that off-plan residential sales dominate Ras Al Khaimah's market, accounting for 85% of transactions and generating AED 11.2 billion in 2025 sales.
The increasing length of time it takes to issue building permits is changing the rules of the game in the Warsaw residential land market.
While the outlook for mortgage rates remains uncertain, a decline could unlock the housing market. The post What Happens to Housing if Mortgage Rates Fall? appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
How a new Fed chair could lead to greater housing market stability and favorable market conditions for future homebuyers. The post Kevin Warsh and the Housing Market Outlook appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
A confluence of factors is reshaping the state’s housing market this spring. What does that mean for buyers and sellers? The post Supply Is Back, Confidence Is Not: Inside Texas’ Shifting Spring Housing Market appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
Ballooning U.S. federal debt and fiscal policy has already cost borrowers approximately $76,000 over the life of a 30-year mortgage at the median home value. The post Federal Debt Growth: A Rising Risk to the Real Estate Market appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
Despite mortgage rates above 6 percent, Texas saw record seller activity in 2024–25, driven largely by existing homeowners. Life events, price gains, and market adjustment suggest the lock-in effect is easing. The post Is the Low-Rate Lock-In Grip Finally Loosening? appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
The trajectory of mortgage rates will be key to shaping nearly everything in 2026. The post The Housing Market: A Look Back at 2025 and What’s Ahead appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
As policymakers look to grease the wheels of the housing market, one proposal would allow homeowners to carry their existing mortgage rate to a new primary residence. The post Mortgage Portability: A Win for Locked-In Homeowners, But at What Price? appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
The Housing Phillips Curve reveals an inverse link between inventory and price growth. It offers insights into housing cycles and affordability challenges and guides policymakers and households in navigating post-pandemic market dynamics. The post Inventory and Price Growth: Applying the Phillips Curve to Housing…
The Fed’s September rate cut triggered a drop in mortgage rates, echoing 2024’s trend. Future rate shifts hinge on labor market dynamics, GDP growth, inflation trends, and the impact of the government shutdown. The post Déjà Vu? What to Expect From the Housing Market in 2025’s Final Stretch appeared first on Texas…
The Fifth Estate - Weather events regularly cause catastrophic damage to property across Australia. Yet, for decades, Australia has treated natural disasters as temporary shocks to the housing market. When floods become business as usual, property values stop recovering is a story from The Fifth Estate ,…
The Fifth Estate - The solutions to the building defect problem must be multipronged and address incentives and capacity, writes Andrea Sharam. And building code enforcement is essential to a properly functioning insurance system and to consumer rights. Code compliance and raising builders’ margins are key to…
Colliers Residential examines projected housing demand drivers and opportunities across Australia over the next decade.
Colliers' integrated developer guide examining feasibility, cost pressures, planning, and market trends affecting greenfield development in Victoria.
Colliers Engineering & Design report analyzing development costs per lot in Victoria based on real project data, market intelligence, and local planning conditions to support land acquisition and feasibility modeling.
This is a report published by NAHB's Eye on Housing in July 2026 examining builder sentiment at the national level, with a focus on homebuilders and economic conditions, particularly regarding affordability concerns.
Housing market conditions are gradually moving away from the extreme tightness that defined the post-pandemic period. Although most estimates still indicate that the U.S. is structurally underbuilt by several million housing units, recent housing stock growth has outpaced population growth, lifting vacancy rates…
The city's overhaul of permitting, plan review, and long-range planning offers practical lessons for municipalities seeking to speed housing and commercial development.
This is an economic update published by NAHB's Eye on Housing in July 2026 covering building material price trends on national markets, noting that material costs continued to increase despite declining energy prices.
Morgantown, WV, Syracuse, NY and Tuscaloosa, AL, lead U.S. college towns in home-price growth, all posting double-digit year-over-year climbs. The most expensive college towns—Santa Barbara, CA, Boca Raton, FL and Flagstaff, AZ—are seeing home prices fall. The least expensive college towns—Dayton, OH, Syracuse, NY…
This is a data-focused report published by the National Association of Home Builders in July 2026 presenting permitting figures for single-family residential construction through May 2026 at the national level. The report indicates that single-family permitting activity showed continued weakness during the measurement period.
Inflation slowed to 3.5% in June 2026 from 4.2% in May, driven primarily by a mid-June ceasefire agreement that stabilized oil markets and reduced energy prices, with gasoline prices falling 9.7% and the shelter index posting its smallest monthly increase since January 2021. The document notes that the relief was short-lived as the ceasefire collapsed in early July, pushing oil prices up 12% and renewing inflation concerns, while core CPI excluding food and energy rose 2.6% year-over-year in June.
There were almost half a million more home sellers than buyers in the U.S. in June, equal to 48.5% more. That means buyers hold the negotiating power. The number of homes listed for sale hit its highest level since 2020–but more buyers entered the market, too, which is why the seller-buyer gap didn’t change much…
The share of new single-family homes with two or more stories declined from 52.5% in 2024 to 51.4% in 2025 according to Census Bureau data, while single-story homes rose from 47.5% to 48.6%. Regional variations showed the Midwest and South favoring single-story construction while the Northeast and West maintained higher shares of multi-story homes, with three-or-more-story homes comprising 5.2% of new homes nationally in 2025.
Prices rose 2.2% year over year in June to a record high, mainly because of growing demand. Existing U.S. home sales ticked up to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.4 million, the highest level since 2022, and pending home sales reached their second-highest level since 2023. Wealthy Bay Area and South Florida…
McKinsey’s Alex Wolkomir discusses how housing leaders can win with AI by improving customer experiences, redesigning workflows, and building trust between parties in the ecosystem.
According to NAHB analysis of the 2025 Survey of Construction, new single-family housing starts nationwide totaled 939,182 units, representing a 6.9% decline compared to 2024, with the South Atlantic division leading at 308,189 starts followed by West South Central at 171,247 starts. Only three of nine Census divisions posted year-over-year growth—East South Central rising 13.7%, East North Central up 8.0%, and Middle Atlantic up 4.0%—while the remaining six divisions declined, with New England experiencing the steepest drop at 26.3%.
A new Redfin analysis takes a look at how much Bay Area real estate OpenAI and Anthropic employees could hypothetically purchase with their IPO earnings, in the wake of two massively valuable AI companies filing confidentially to go public. OpenAI employees could buy 20% of all homes in San Francisco, or 15% of all…
Existing home sales fell 2.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million units in June 2026, pulled back by record-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates around 6.5%, though year-over-year sales were up 2.8%. The median existing home price reached an all-time high of $440,600 (up 1.8% annually), inventory stood at 4.6 months' supply, and first-time buyer share was 33% of transactions.
AFIRE Summit #19 examines whether migration patterns from coastal to Sunbelt regions are meaningfully constrained by NIMBYism and local zoning policies affecting housing supply.
Analysis of second-quarter market conditions covering housing affordability challenges, capital market tightness, and legislative developments affecting commercial real estate.
Interview or commentary featuring LGI Homes leadership discussing company strategy, market positioning, and approaches to housing affordability in the current environment.
In the second quarter of 2026, the NAHB Remodeling Market Index posted a reading of 61, down one point from the previous quarter, with the Current Conditions Index averaging 70 and the Future Indicators Index averaging 52. Remodelers reported strong sentiment supported by homeowners' record real estate asset gains and mortgage rate incentives to remodel rather than purchase, though 74% of remodelers noted suppliers increased material prices by an average of 6.7% since March due to higher fuel costs and economic uncertainty.
Zillow research examines residential market dynamics during the spring home shopping season, analyzing trends in sales activity and new housing inventory.
July 2026 Housing commentary focuses too heavily on First Home Buyers and Investors. This is because they are easy to measure and politically visible. Charter Keck Cramer research shows that the more important cohort is the Next Time Buyer. These are existing homeowners who re-enter the market to move, resize,…
Mortgage applications remained essentially flat in June 2026 with a 0.3% month-over-month decline, driven by a 2.5% drop in refinancing applications that offset a 0.7% gain in purchase applications, while the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage average contract rate increased 5 basis points to 6.59%. Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) applications declined 9.4% during the month, reducing the ARM share of total applications to 8.2%, and the overall average loan size decreased 3.4% to $393,800.
The number of major metros where you can buy a luxury home for less than $1 million is down five from eight last year. Detroit is the most affordable metro for luxury homes, with a median price of $719,252—47.7% less than the typical luxury home nationwide, $1,374,470. San Francisco is the most expensive, with a…
In 2025, approximately 47,000 homes were built in age-restricted communities representing 3.45% of all housing starts, with roughly two-thirds being single-family units and one-third multifamily units. Age-restricted single-family homes carried a median sales price of $523,000—about 27% higher than non-age-restricted homes at $412,000—despite being only slightly larger at 2,500 square feet versus 2,100 square feet, with the price premium partly attributable to more expensive lot values.
Analysis of pending home sales trends spanning the low-rate environment of 2020–2021 through the subsequent rate-driven decline and recovery period.
Analysis of baby boomer participation in residential real estate, showing ages 61–79 represent 42% of buyers and 55% of sellers in the current market.
Analysis of seasonal sales patterns, inventory levels, and buyer behavior during July, examining the impact of weather, daylight, and school-year timing on residential real estate activity.
This week the Radius+ team took a closer look at the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC CBSA. Augusta continues to grow as part of the broader Sunbelt expansion. The market saw significant supply growth in 2021 and 2022, followed by more moderate additions in 2023. New homes and steady migration have allowed the market…
West Palm Beach, FL, where the typical luxury home costs 8.9 times more than the typical non luxury home, has the nation’s biggest luxury home price premium. Next comes Miami, with a median luxury-to-non luxury home price ratio of 8.8, and New York City, where the typical luxury home costs 5.5 times the typical non…
Residential construction employment declined by 48,800 jobs over the preceding 12 months, marking the fifteenth consecutive annual decline and the longest stretch since the Great Recession, while location quotient analysis of December 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals that home building employment concentration is substantially higher in rural and smaller-market counties than in large metropolitan cores, with non-metro/micro counties averaging a location quotient of 1.48 and nearly three-quarters of Western state counties exceeding the national employment share.
Morningstar DBRS releases quarterly housing market indicators tracking Canadian residential market conditions and trends.
The top ten builders' market share of new U.S. single-family home closings declined to 43.6% in 2025 from 44.8% in 2024, representing 295,959 closings out of 679,083 total new single-family homes sold, according to BUILDER magazine data cited by the National Association of Home Builders. D.R. Horton remained the largest builder with 12.8% market share (87,168 closings), while Lennar increased its share to a series-high 12.2%, narrowing the gap to just 0.6 percentage points between the top two builders.
Moody's CRE Analytics report analyzing housing affordability trends and conditions in the fourth quarter of 2024.
A state-by-state assessment of housing affordability and homebuilding performance across the United States.
Oxford Economics research briefing analyzing household income requirements to afford single-family homes across major U.S. metropolitan areas.
Analysis examining the structural relationship between housing supply constraints and affordability across different price segments in the U.S. residential market.
The median U.S. housing payment posted its first year-over-year increase since October during the four weeks ending June 28 as home prices and mortgage rates rose. Pending home sales crept up 0.4% week over week. We’re taking a break from analysis this week, but please see the tables and charts below for this…
Research exploring the motivations and barriers affecting move-up homebuyers and strategies to encourage their participation in the market.
John Burns Research and Consulting examines the factors deterring homebuyer activity in the current market environment.
Analysis of demographic and consumer trends affecting US housing demand and market dynamics.
A housing market recap examining demand cooling, capital deployment patterns, and emerging signals for the residential real estate cycle ahead.
Analysis of the geographic expansion of million-dollar starter home markets across U.S. states, examining affordability trends in residential real estate.
Analysis of mortgage denial disparities between Black and White applicants, examining how financial strain correlates with widening approval gaps across demographics.
Zillow Research forecast examining divergent scenarios and trajectories for residential real estate during the 2026 home buying season.