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Regional markets back demand resilience as rate pressure builds

Affordability, California, Data & Analytics, Housing Market, Housing Market Data, HWmember, Texas /

Regional market data is reinforcing the same story playing out nationally: Housing demand is holding up across major metros, even as mortgage rates move closer to levels that have historically pressured activity. That national backdrop remains surprisingly firm. Weekly pending sales rose to 71,230, up from 68,726 a year ago, while purchase applications are still […]

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Spreads play the superhero as mortgage rates move below 6% again

Housing Market, Housing Market Data, HWmember, Mortgage Rates, Mortgage Rates Center /

After a weekend of crazy headlines and a stock sell-off on Monday morning, bond yields are close to hitting 4% again, but mortgage rates are back under 6% once again, which is the multiyear low in recent history. The biggest reason rates are under 6% isn’t just that the 2025 labor market produced the lowest

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Midwest apartment demand outpaces Sun Belt as rents remain firm

Affordability, Affordable housing, Capital, Housing Market Data, Rental Properties, The Builder's Daily /

Midwest apartment demand has quietly become one of the strongest stories in U.S. housing, even as the national rental market cooled.​ RentCafe, using data from its sister apartment rental analytics provider, Yardi Matrix, listed Cincinnati as the top apartment market to watch this rental season. Minneapolis, Cleveland and Kansas City, Missouri, ranked in the top

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NVR’s Q4 and the value of staying land-light in a headwinds market

Homebuilders, Housing Market Data, Leadership, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

A headwinds-meets-crosswinds housing market buffets homebuilding business leaders as 2026’s spring selling stretch lies just ahead. Almost in everything, everywhere and all at once, homebuilding firms are buying sales, trying not to be among those whose inventory ages on the vine. An outlying knack for sustaining a new-order pace, defined less by price discovery and

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Post-holiday pending sales rebound exposes regional divides

Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics, Housing Market, Housing Market Data, HWmember /

The U.S. housing market is showing clear signs of a post-holiday recovery. Pending home sales climbed to 50,096 new contracts this week, a 25.7% increase from last week’s 39,841, as buyer activity rebounds from the typical holiday slowdown. The increase in buyer activity, combined with shifting market dynamics, signals a return to more typical activity

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What D.R. Horton’s dominance means for every U.S. homebuilder

Homebuilder Confidence, Homebuilders, Housing Market Data, Leadership, New Home Sales, The Builder's Daily /

We’ve said it before. When D.R. Horton reports its quarterly earnings, what you’re watching isn’t just the scoreboard of America’s largest homebuilder. You’re watching a business model operating at a different altitude — and with different oxygen — than almost every other homebuilding enterprise in the country. And when it performs, the implications go far

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Housing activity weakens in latest Fed Beige Book report

Beige Book, Federal Reserve, Homebuilders, Housing Market, Housing Market Data, HWmember, Lenders, Real Estate, Unemployment /

Housing activity weakened across much of the country, emerging as one of the clearest drags on overall economic performance, according to the Federal Reserve’s most recent Beige Book report. Most Federal Reserve districts reporting on residential real estate cited softer home sales, slower construction and reduced mortgage lending. Higher borrowing costs and affordability constraints continued

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Builders greet 2026 squeezed by policy flux and margin erosion

Homebuilder Confidence, Homebuilders, Housing Market Data, Leadership, New Home Sales, The Builder's Daily /

By the time the homebuilding industry reaches Super Bowl LX on Sunday, Feb. 8, the stakes will be unmistakable. That date marks more than the unofficial kickoff to Spring Selling Season, for U.S. homebuilders large and small. It signals the point at which months of price capitulation, incentive layering, cost cutting, and balance-sheet triage either

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U.S. housing inventory growth slows to 10% as demand reshapes the 2026 market

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Housing inventory growth has slowed from 33% year over year in mid-2025 to 10.0% today. The cooling marks the clearest end to the supply-shortage era and the beginning of a market where pricing power will be determined more by demand strength, rates and buyer behavior than scarcity alone. As HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami recently

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Midwest housing markets coming in hot for 2026

Affordability, Data & Analytics, Data & Visuals, Home Prices, Home Sales, Housing Market, Housing Market Data, Illinois, REMAX /

As the housing market moves into 2026, competition remains intense in many parts of the country — especially in smaller metros where inventory is critically low. New findings from HW Data based on supply, pricing and buyer activity show that demand for single-family homes continues to far outpace available homes in several markets, even as

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