Real Estate Market Data & Trends Forum
For those of you who've been through a full real estate cycle, I'm curious. What finally made you stop buying in a market that had been good to you? Was it prices getting too far ahead of rents? More homes sitting on the market? Or was it something you started noticing just from being out there d...
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Find a Lender๐๐ก๐ ๐.๐. ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ค๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ, ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. 3.75M annualized sales took place in Oct 2026, which is down 44% from the pandemic peak. Adjusted for the size of the housing stock, demand is in its biggest depression ever, ...
Pulled the Wayne County residential numbers for October vs September (Realcomp statistics), and the story is a market splitting two ways: New listings: 2,262 โ 2,243 (โ0.8%) Pending sales: 1,234 โ 1,271 (+3.0%) Closed sales: 1,246 โ 1,222 (โ1.9%) Days on market: 31 โ 33 Average sale price: $271,3...
Market Update โ What You Need to Know! (Based on past 3 months of Las Vegas single family home market data) ๐น Did the value of homes go up or down? August: $482,000 September: $480,000 October: $485,000 *Based off median prices ๐น On average, how long would it take to sell my home? August: 27 days...
Two trading days in a row this week, the daily mortgage rate index jumped 0.12%. Mortgage News Daily's 30-year went from 7.18% Monday to 7.30% Tuesday to 7.42% Thursday. The 10-year Treasury is back above 5% for the first time since October 22, and the 30-year bond auction cleared at 5.441% with ...
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 ...
Residential assisted living is one of the hardest small properties to finance. DSCR lenders see an operating business and pass. Commercial desks see a $400,000 house and pass. There are now 30-year fixed programs with no balloon built for 1-4 unit assisted living homes, with a 10-year interest-on...
What happens if you buy a duplex at the wrong time? I wanted to put some local numbers behind that question, so I looked at matched resales of 2โ4 unit buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, with a minimum two-year hold. There were 4,829 qualifying resales. Of those, 957, or about 20%, closed bel...
On 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...
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 ...
Apparently, homebuilders are cutting jobs and buying less land, while the companies buying land and getting it ready for development are hiring. Funny how that works. Builders are slowing down, construction numbers are dropping, and new home approvals are at their lowest point since 2012. About h...
Hereโs an October snapshot of 14 zip codes that fall wholly or partly in Platte County, Missouri. I pulled these from the MLS. Numbers are shown as: Average sale price | Average days on market | Close to list price ratio | New listings for the month. 64018 - No residential sales reported 64079 - ...
Hereโs an October snapshot of 20 zip codes that fall wholly or partly in Clay County, Missouri. I pulled these from the MLS. Numbers are shown as: Average sale price | Average days on market | Close-to-list price ratio | New listings for the month. 64024 - $355,948 | 4 days | 100.6% | 29 64048 - ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Today'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 ...