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The economist whose forecasts set the tone for much of the housing industry has sharply lowered his expectations for the year. Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, now projects that existing-home sales will grow about 4% in 2026, a steep markdown from the roughly 14% jump he was calling for just…
Prospective homebuyers hoping for a rebound in housing activity just lost one of their strongest cheerleaders. Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors and widely regarded as the nation’s top housing economist, slashed his 2026 home-sales forecast to roughly 4 percent growth, a sharp retreat from the 14 percent jump he projected…
Buyers who locked in mortgage rates during April and May closed fewer deals than Wall Street expected, dragging existing-home sales in June to their weakest seasonally adjusted pace so far this year. The result fell short of the roughly 4.21 million annualized rate that analysts surveyed by FactSet had projected, extending a sales slump that…
American homebuyers face the most favorable purchasing conditions in years, as national house prices record sustained monthly declines and inflation-adjusted wages continue to climb. The combination has narrowed the gap between what a median-income household earns and what a median-priced home costs each month, a shift that had stalled for much of the past three…
Homebuyers and sellers across the United States are watching a streak that has not occurred in years: the national median listing price for homes has now declined for seven consecutive months, landing at $430,000. The slide, tracked through Realtor.com’s Housing Inventory Core Metrics series and distributed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, signals…
Homeowners across the country are shelving kitchen overhauls, bathroom gut-jobs, and other large remodeling projects, according to the latest quarterly filings from the two biggest home-improvement retailers in the United States. Home Depot and Lowe’s both reported weaker demand for big-ticket, financed renovations during their most recent earnings periods, pointing to elevated interest rates and…
Roughly 118,727 U.S. properties received a foreclosure filing during the first quarter of 2026, a 26 percent jump from the same period a year earlier. Indiana now sits at the top of the national list, with one in every 739 homes caught in some stage of the foreclosure process. The numbers signal a sharp acceleration…
Buyers shopping for a home in mid-2026 are finding something they have not seen in years: asking prices that sit 2.5 percent below where they stood a year earlier, according to listing-level data. At the same time, the federal government’s own sales records show supply measures for new homes climbing while median transaction prices hold…
Buyers shopping for a home in the United States are finding prices softer than at any point in the past year, with values down roughly 2.5% compared to twelve months ago. Rising inventory has handed house hunters more choices and more room to negotiate, a shift that reverses years of seller dominance fueled by pandemic-era…
Homebuyers who spent the past several years losing out in frenzied bidding wars are finding something they have not seen in a long time: choice. Newly built homes are sitting on the market longer, and the supply of unsold inventory has climbed to levels not recorded since before the pandemic. The shift is giving buyers…