Housing Starts Fell in April But Remain Up Compared to Last Year
Housing starts in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.569 million, a decrease of 9.5% compared with March but up 67.3%...
Zillow: Homes Selling at Record Pace Despite Big Jump in Home Values
According to a recent report from Zillow, annual U.S. home-value growth in April came in at 11.6% - the highest growth rate seen since...
Redfin: Expect 17 Percent Year-Over-Year Increase in Home Sales
According to a new report from Redfin, $2.53 trillion in home sales will close in the U.S. by the end of the year, marking a...
Lousy Jobs Report as U.S. Businesses Fail to Lure Workers Off the Sidelines
The U.S. economy added only 266,000 jobs in April, far below expectations, while the unemployment rate was little changed at 6.1%, according to the...
Home Prices in March Jumped 11.3 Percent Year-Over-Year as Demand Remains Strong
U.S. home prices continued to rise rapidly in March, propelled by low inventory and record demand from millennial buyers, CoreLogic’s home price index shows.
The...
CoreLogic: Spring 2021 Home-Buying Season Showing Heavy Activity
The CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) and HPI Forecast for March 2021 suggest that as consumer confidence rebounds and the job market picks back up, the 2021 spring...
Index Data Reflect Highest Annual Home-Price Gain in 15 Years
February 2021 data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices showed a 12% year-over-year gain in the National Home Price NSA Index, up from 11.2%...
Existing-Home Sales Dipped in March as Inventory Issues Persist
Existing-home sales were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 6.01 million in March, down 3.7% compared with February but up 12.3% compared with March...
New Home Sales Jumped More Than 20 Percent in March
New home sales continued to rise in March, jumping 20.7% compared with February and 66.8% compared with March 2020, according to the U.S. Census...
Housing Starts Jumped in March, Helping to Address Nagging Inventory Issue
Housing starts jumped almost 20% in March compared with February, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.739 million, according to the U.S. Census...
Redfin: Housing Market Went Bonkers in March
According to a new report from Redfin, the housing market set several records in March - a stark fact considering that year-over-year comparisons are being looked...
Home Prices Continued to Rise in February But Slowdown is Expected
U.S. home prices increased 1.2% in February compared with January and were up 10.4% compared with February 2020, according to CoreLogic.
That’s the highest level...
Black Knight: Housing Currently Least Affordable in Nearly Two Years
The latest Mortgage Monitor Report from the Data & Analytics division of Black Knight Inc. contends that intense home price appreciation over the past year has profoundly...
U.S. Economy Added 916K Jobs in March
The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate edged down to 6.0%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Job...
Home Prices in January Saw Largest Annual Gain Since 2006
U.S. home prices increased 1.2% on an adjusted basis in January compared with December and were up 11.2% compared with January 2020, according to...
FHFA HPI: ‘The Monthly Gains Appear To Be Moderating’
Nationwide, house prices increased 1.0 percent from December to January, according to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (FHFA HPI).
Prices rose 12.0 percent from...
Existing-Home Sales Fell 6.6 Percent in February, Possible Slowdown Looming
After increasing the previous two months, existing-home sales fell in February compared with January but were up compared with February 2020, according to the...
Radian HPI: Home Prices Increased More Than 8 Percent Year Over Year
In February, home prices across the U.S. rose at a faster pace than the month prior and continued to appreciate at higher than 2020...
NAR: ‘The Market Is Still Outperforming Pre-Pandemic Levels’
Existing-home sales declined in February, following two prior months of gains, according to the National Association of Realtors. Month over month, only one major...
Redfin Chief Economist: ‘I Wouldn’t Call This a Housing Bubble’
According to a new report from Redfin, the median U.S. home sale price increased 17% year over year to $330,250 - an all-time high - for the...