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ATTOM: Home affordability stays strained across the country

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Homes remained less affordable than historic norms in nearly every U.S. county at the end of 2025, despite modest improvements late in the year, according to ATTOM’s latest U.S. Home Affordability Report, released Thursday. In 586 of the 594 counties analyzed (or 99%), median-priced single-family homes and condominiums were less affordable than historic averages in […]

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Will banning institutional investors make homes more affordable?

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Housing professionals across the country raised their eyebrows earlier this week when President Donald Trump said he would look to stop large institutional investors from buying homes, citing increased affordability pressures on the typical American consumer. Cotality principal economist Thom Malone has long studied the impacts that real estate investors of all sizes have on

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What will bring first-time buyers into the 2026 housing market?

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Will 2026 be a turning point for prospective first-time homebuyers? The National Association of Realtors (NAR) seems to think so.  In a report published on Tuesday, the trade group says that it expects the housing affordability landscape to improve throughout the year. Driving this improvement, according to NAR, will be a steady rise in housing

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Housing absorption rate vs market size: Efficiency signals pressure

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Data reflects single-family home market conditions as of the Jan. 3, 2026 weekly snapshot, based on HousingWire proprietary data. Housing markets are often evaluated by size: total sales, total dollar volume, total listings. Those metrics describe where activity is concentrated. They do not reliably indicate where competition is intensifying, where pricing power is shifting, or

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New homeowner data challenges mortgage rate lockdown theory

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I have often debated whether the mortgage rate lockdown is real or just another housing myth. At first glance, the lockdown theory seems like common sense, so when mortgage rates jumped from 3% to 7% in 2022, it was logical to wonder why anyone would choose to sell their home. People with low rates seemed

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Judge Valderrama’s ‘roadmap’ for successful antitrust litigation in affordable housing crisis

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“The Court accepts as true all of the well-pleaded facts in the Complaint and draws all reasonable inferences in favor of Plaintiffs.” So said U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama on 12.4.2025. According to Reuters: “A group of companies that lease land for mobile homes has convinced a federal judge in Chicago to dismiss a proposed

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2026 housing forecast

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2026 is upon us and for this year, I want to keep the housing discussion very simple. As active inventory has returned to near-normal levels and home-price growth has cooled, we are entering a year when buyers, sellers and buyers-to-be are on a much better footing than in the unhealthy housing markets of 2020 to

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Out-of-state investors keep sizable stake in single-family homes

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Out-of-state investment in U.S. single-family homes remains elevated in 2025, even as the housing market continues to cool from pandemic-era extremes, according to new data from SFR Analytics. Nonresident investors accounted for 5.56% of single-family home purchases nationwide this year. That share is slightly below 2024 levels and well under the 2021 peak, but it

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Home price growth slows, affordability pressures persist

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U.S. home price growth remained muted in October as high mortgage rates and affordability constraints continued to weigh on the housing market, according to data released Tuesday by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P Cotality Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index rose 1.4% from a year earlier — up slightly from a 1.3% annual increase

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Realtor.com urges action on US housing supply shortage

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As the housing industry prepares for 2026, Realtor.com is taking some time to double down on its Let America Build campaign. Initially launched in March 2025, the national campaign advocates for solutions to expand housing supply.  Realtor.com describes the campaign, which calls on lawmakers to make pro-building choices, as an effort to advocate for “solutions

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