Real Estate Market Data & Trends Forum
I'm a developer in the Carolinas and have been working on a way to compare markets on fundamentals instead of headlines. I'd value this group's read. I scored 37 Southeast and Texas metros on six things using public data (Census, BLS, FHFA), mostly through 2025: Population growth Job growth Net d...
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Find a LenderOn Monday I asked whether 7.17% was a floor for mortgage rates. Tuesday answered it. October CPI rose 0.4% against a forecast near 0.24%. Core rose 0.3% for the third month running, and services prices, the part the Fed watches hardest, didn't cool. BLS didn't publish a yearly all-items number at...
When people talk about the real estate market, the conversation often goes straight to home prices. But investors know thereโs much more happening underneath the surface. Inventory. Buyer demand. Days on market. Construction activity. Financing conditions. Rent trends. Local employment. All of th...
October brought further evidence of weakening prices in the Austin-area housing market. Buyer activity remains subdued, and all four major price measures declined year over year. At the same time, new listings fell, limiting the growth of available inventory. Here's the October snapshot for the 5...
Zillow's October 2026 market report put the Columbus Observed Rent Index at $1,523, flat on the month and up 2.7% year over year. Columbus home values sat around $326,915 (+1.0% YoY), and Zillow's sales nowcast for the metro was down 12.3% YoY with inventory up 7.1% YoY. Nationwide, 40.4% of rent...
Orange County apartment properties that closed escrow in October 2026 averaged 54 days on market, and active listings climbed to 312. Of the 45 closed sales, 38 were 2-4 unit buildings, only 8 sold at or above asking price, and the average cap rate was 4.7% (source: Orange County Apartment Broker...
Condos come up here a lot, usually as "do they ever work with the HOA?" So I ran them. The screen: 20,683 condos for sale across 10 markets (Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm, Tampa Bay, Sarasota, Fort Walton-Destin, Panama City, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Springfield MO). Each has...
Rhode Island's headline price went up in October. The effective price is a different conversation. Per Rhode Island Statewide MLS data reported Nov 9 in Providence Business News: 594 single-family homes sold in October 2026, down about 8.6% from 650 in October 2025, while the median sales price r...
Massachusetts asking prices finally moved down in October โ and sold prices barely moved at all. Per Realtor.com October 2026 data: the median listing price fell to $714,250, down 5.20% year over year and down 1.48% month over month. The median sold price was $630,000, up 0.80% year over year (do...
New Hampshire buy-and-hold math got squeezed from both sides in October โ prices up on the buy, rents down on the hold. Per Realtor.com October 2026 data: the median sold price rose 7% year over year to $535,000, while the median listing price eased to $590,000, down 0.41% year over year. Median ...
Hey all, I'm a builder-developer based in Indianapolis. We focus on infill duplexes, quadplexes and townhomes (middle market housing) in the urban core, plus some larger projects in expanding Indiana towns. As we plan next year's pipeline, I'd like to hear what other local investors are actually ...
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Find an AgentToday's Read Time: 16 minutes (totally worth it, we go deep!) This week, we're talkin' the loyalty tax: America's largest landlords are cutting rents for applicants and raising them on tenants. What gives?! I'll walk through why they can get away with it, what it does to the value of the building...
October payrolls came in at 165,000. The consensus was around 55,000, unemployment dropped to 4.1%, and August and September got revised up by a combined 84,000. On a normal day that sends mortgage rates up. They didn't move. Mortgage News Daily's 30-year index ended Friday at 7.17%, the same as ...
Heads up for anyone pricing a resale or a refi this week. Tuesday's October CPI (7:30 a.m. Central) won't include an all-items or core yearly rate. BLS never collected October 2025 prices during last year's shutdown, so there's nothing to compare against. Gasoline, new vehicles and used cars keep...
I ran the same buy-and-hold screen I did for Cleveland and Toledo on every active Birmingham-area listing from $60k to $600k, pulled Oct 23. That's 1,650 listings. The assumption I trust least is insurance, and local owners know it better than any dataset. Assumptions: 25% down at 7% on a 30-year...
This morning the 30-year fixed was sitting around 6.86%. That's the first time we've been under 7% in about seven weeks. A few weeks ago it was closer to 7.5%. Freddie Mac's weekly survey (the big national average everybody quotes) has dropped three weeks straight: 7.32%, then 7.24%, then 7.18% l...
I am a local investor looking to help homeowners sell in a tough market. Whether it be needed repairs, market volatility, etc. I have a solution to help, for example, an older couple move closer to their grandkids two states over but cannot move because they don't have a resource or knowledge to ...
The 10-year Treasury started October at 5.28% and closed Friday at 4.94%. That happened in a month when two Fed members voted for another hike, so the short end and the long end are pulling in different directions right now. Mortgage News Daily's 30-year index finished the week at 7.27%, its lowe...
Mortgage rates have improved meaningfully over the past month. Mortgage News Dailyโs 30-year benchmark fell from 7.61% in early October to 7.17% Thursday. Todayโs strong jobs report created some pressure, but so far the bond market has held up better than you might expect. And remember: the rates...
๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก. And it's not particularly close. There are now 854,000 active listings across the South and West, representing 29 states and some of the country's largest housing markets. That's a staggering 158% increase since October 2021. Inventory ...
October's jobs report nearly tripled expectations, but the rest of the week's labor data paints a more mixed picture, and that gap matters for anyone underwriting deals right now. The Headline Number Was Strong The BLS reported 165,000 jobs added in October against forecasts of around 60,000, wit...
I asked Theresa Quartaro, a Qualified Intermediary at IPX1031 in Houston, which 1031 timing mistakes cost investors the most. Her answers, in short: The 180 days are hard calendar days. You get 45 days to identify the replacement and 135 more to close, with very strict timelines. You can find the...
Hi everyone! Iโm starting to invest in the Milwaukee area, but I donโt live in the U.S. yet. Iโd love to get your recommendations on good neighborhoods to start with, and whether itโs better to focus on the north side or the south side of the city. Thanks in advance for any advice!
๐๐ก๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ค๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐๐ญ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ. Headlines were pounding the idea, and still are, that there is a housing shortage. Take a look at what's happened to housing inventory since October 2019. Some of the country's largest real estate markets have now m...