Key notes from NAHB on homebuilder confidence, how builders are making deals with buyers right now, and how many homes are getting built.
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To promote both Zillow ChatGPT & Redfin ChatGPT home search launching, here's LOL satire about Zillow & Redfin bots going to war!
Realtor.com team updated their 1Q23 homeownership chart set, which shows homeownership overall, by age, and by race.
World's first 3-D printed hotel and homes look killer. Check out this collab led by Liz Lambert, ICON, and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.
March 2023 pending home sales drop on low inventory, new home competition, and probably bank crisis worry. Here's home price predictions too.
In Pennsylvania, 3 investors bought an old high school for $100k, got a $2m mortgage for $12,129/mo, and put in $1.3m of their own money to turn it into a 31 apartments in 18mo.
New home prices of $449,800 are up $11k from Feb but down $47k from peak. Can you afford this? You need to make $99k-117k/yr to qualify. Here's the math.
Here are a few key stats on home affordability, home prices today one year ago, and whether buyers can buy without sellers taking huge losses.
Nationally, rents are down in the year through March 2023, but rents rose in 81.4% of states. Here is a rundown of key national, state, and city stats.
John Burns has a good update on price trends for renting houses. This isn't the whole market, but it's a good temperature check on homes owned by institutional landlords.
Goldman Sachs and 2 other entities buy 10k affordable homes in FL, IL, IN, KY, NY, SC, TX, WI to provide "over 30k residents with quality affordable housing for the long term."
Gen Z homeownership 30% in 2022 vs. 28% millennials 27% Gen X, 32% boomers when they were 25. Here's the affordability math for 2023.
Existing home sales down 13 of 14 months, and home prices now $375,700 for 87% of inventory. Is this affordable? Here's the math.
Realtors with 2 years of experience grossed just $8,800 in 2021, and total working agents grew 150,981 from Feb 2020 to Mar 2023.
Why aren't housing prices crashing? Will we ever see affordable housing prices again? Ben Carlson at Ritholtz Wealth answers.
