Real estate market trends and analysis
College towns across the country have seen median home list prices surge by double digits since name, image and likeness (NIL) deals became legal for student-athletes in 2021, according to HousingWire...
Sep 18, 2026 · 5 min readZillow’s claims against Chicagoland MLS Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) are heading to arbitration after U.S. District Court Judge John Tharp granted MRED’s motion to compel arbitration on Tuesday. I...
Sep 18, 2026 · 5 min readOn Lennar’s second-quarter earnings call, Stuart Miller expressed cautious optimism about improving margins as part of his grounded, realistic assessment of market conditions. The optimism stemmed fro...
Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read
At this time of year, as we remember Sept. 11, 2001, I inevitably find myself thinking about time. I think about the people who went to work that morning expecting it to be an ordinary Tuesday. I thin...
Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min readToday, mortgage rates rose above 7% for the first time this year. The positive storyline for the 2026 housing market was that mortgage spreads near normal would reduce mortgage rate volatility and kee...
Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min readMove over “Jersey Boys,” because this Jersey girl is the queen bee of the New Jersey real estate market. Teresa Minnick of Christie’s International Real Estate Group is a leading broker in the Garden...
Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min readLast year I saw that the housing market was shifting in mid-June and that it would take six to nine months for people to understand what was happening. Sales were about to grow, inventory growth was a...
Sep 05, 2026 · 5 min readPresident Donald Trump on Friday demanded that the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, threatening to halt trade with countries with which the U.S. runs a trade deficit if the central bank does not co...
Sep 04, 2026 · 5 min readThe next useful layer of housing data is hyperlocal: subdivisions, developments, buildings and competitive sets that can matter more to an individual property than broad geographic averages. “Real est...
Sep 04, 2026 · 5 min readInvestors accounted for 27% of U.S. single-family home purchases from March through June 2026, down from 28% at the end of the first quarter, according to a Sept. 3 analysis from Cotality. The decline...
Sep 04, 2026 · 5 min readI ordered a grill online last year. Standard purchase, nothing special. But at some point after clicking buy, I noticed I could see exactly where it was at any given moment. Which facility it left. Wh...
Sep 02, 2026 · 5 min readHigher mortgage rates have tended to slow housing data over the past few years and that has been the case in 2026. But this year has been a bit more orderly since mortgage rates haven’t broken over 7%...
Aug 29, 2026 · 5 min readHomebuilding’s Summer of 2026 race to the bottom is on. Even as new home prices fell to a five-year low, sales slowed sharply in July as builders contended with cautious buyers and growing new-home in...
Aug 25, 2026 · 5 min read
Best Large U.S. Cities for Gen Z in 2026
Aug 25, 2026 · 5 min readHousing has an AI problem, and the Federal Reserve has said so. As the midterms approach, a wave of anti-data-center sentiment and backlash against AI in general has been so sweeping that governors in...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min readYou have heard it at a listing table. You may have said a version of it yourself. “Let’s start it privately. Limited access creates urgency. When buyers cannot have something, they want it more.” The ...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min readCompass International Holdings is adding yet another antitrust claim to its growing legal and regulatory docket. On Wednesday, plaintiffs Peter Castaneda and Haley Gelfand, both New York City renters...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Landlords underwrite the retail tenant. But they almost never underwrite the tenant’s customer. They should. That gap costs landlords money, and it is fixable before a listing goes live. The standard ...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min readIt’s official. New York is employing more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay area. According to an annual CBRE report on North American tech talent, the New York metropolitan area’s tech workforc...
Aug 20, 2026 · 5 min read