Fri, Mar 1 2024, 3:51 PM
Sometimes you'll see coverage of economic data that conforms to certain template with a predictable details and word counts. Rarely, the word count w...
Tue, Feb 27 2024, 11:55 AM
Despite the upward path of interest rates, both the CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices and the Housing Price Index (HPI) published by the Federal Housing ...
Mon, Feb 26 2024, 3:24 PM
With the market for existing homes struggling amid a lack of inventory, New Home Sales continue doing the heavy lifting for the housing market. Rathe...
Thu, Feb 22 2024, 1:23 PM
Prospects for the spring market look a bit brighter as January numbers show an increase in both the pace of existing home sales and the size of the un...
Fri, Feb 16 2024, 11:10 AM
Even though the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the third consecutive increase in its measure of home builder confidence, actual...
Fri, Jan 26 2024, 12:54 PM
Pending home sales surged last month, far exceeding analysts’ expectations. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sales In...
Thu, Jan 25 2024, 2:43 PM
New home sales finished 2023 on a positive note , posting seasonally adjusted numbers higher than in both November and the prior December. The U.S. Ce...
Thu, Jan 18 2024, 12:39 PM
December’s housing starts failed to sustain their November growth but permit activity as well as positive news out of the National Association of Home...
Mon, Jan 8 2024, 1:33 PM
Even as consumer sentiment about housing remained generally pessimistic, a change in perceptions about the future of mortgage interest rates did a lot...
Thu, Dec 28 2023, 3:15 PM
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) releases two widely followed home sales reports. Existing Home Sales measure transactions of homes other t...
Thu, Nov 30 2023, 12:26 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sale Index (PHSI) established a record low in October. The Index, a forward-looking ...
Mon, Nov 27 2023, 2:48 PM
The Census Bureau released the monthly New Home Sales report today, showing a decrease from 719k in September (revised down from 759k initially report...
Wed, Nov 22 2023, 8:47 AM
An improved (albeit slightly) mortgage interest rate environment helped push the volume of mortgage applications higher during the week ending Novembe...
Tue, Nov 21 2023, 12:46 PM
Existing home sales achieved their lowest annual level in ten years in September, and now appear to have doubled down. The National Association of Rea...
Tue, Oct 31 2023, 2:30 PM
Even with interest rates at a two-decade high and mortgage applications and existing home sales slipping back to 20th-century levels, home prices cont...
Thu, Oct 26 2023, 3:18 PM
There's not much by way of "new news" for the housing market when it comes to sales data. New home sales continue strongly outperforming while Existi...
Thu, Oct 19 2023, 11:59 AM
Sales fell below the $4 million mark in September, marking the slowest month for existing home sales since October 2010. The National Association of R...
Tue, Oct 17 2023, 11:39 AM
Stubbornly high mortgage rates further eroded home builders’ confidence in the new home market in October. Not only did the National Association of Ho...
Thu, Sep 28 2023, 12:47 PM
Pending home sales failed to add a third month onto the mini rally it staged in June and July. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its P...
Tue, Sep 26 2023, 2:11 PM
August sales of newly constructed single-family homes failed to match the robust numbers from July but were significantly better than those a year ear...
Tue, Sep 26 2023, 11:16 AM
Home prices have resumed their upward climb despite mortgage rates that have doubled post-COVID. According to Craig J. Lazzara, Managing Director at S...
Mon, Sep 18 2023, 11:56 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said on Monday that its index that measures home builder confidence in the new home market has fallen...
Wed, Aug 23 2023, 2:52 PM
Sales of newly constructed homes appear to be benefitting from the very lack of inventory that is stifling existing home sales. July’s sales of pre-...
Tue, Aug 22 2023, 11:52 AM
Sales of existing homes slipped in July even as median prices sustained their record-high levels. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said th...
Tue, Aug 15 2023, 11:44 AM
Rising rates took a toll on builder confidence in August. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market In...
Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:26 PM
Pending home sales pulled out of a three-month spiral in June but with only a fractional increase from May. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR...
Tue, Jul 25 2023, 2:18 PM
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices posted an annual decline in home prices for the second straight month in May while the Housing Price Index pr...
Thu, Jul 20 2023, 4:33 PM
Almost everyone has said it or heard it: Existing Home Sales are in the toilet because there's no inventory and there's no inventory because no one wa...
Tue, Jul 18 2023, 11:00 AM
Builder confidence in the market for newly constructed homes rose another point in July according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)....
Mon, Jul 10 2023, 2:29 PM
The Black Knight Mortgage Monitor for May doesn’t even hint at a housing crisis on the horizon. Affordability is again (or maybe still) a concern, ...
Wed, Jun 28 2023, 9:17 AM
In light of yesterday’s strong report on new home sales and the earlier marginally improved one on pre-owned home sales, mortgage application volumes ...
Tue, Jun 27 2023, 1:33 PM
Both the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index and the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA’s) Home Price Index (HPI) show home...
Tue, Jun 27 2023, 1:16 PM
Last month’s sales of newly constructed single-family homes rose to the highest level since February 2022. The report from the U.S. Census Bureau an...
Thu, Jun 22 2023, 2:40 PM
The reality of the home sales market is in the eye of the beholder these days and the just-released Existing Home Sales report doesn't shed much light...
Tue, May 30 2023, 11:57 AM
One of the major home price indices showed a continued increase in national home prices in March and less waffling in some local markets. A second i...
Thu, May 25 2023, 11:48 AM
The number of contracts to purchase pre-owned homes was unchanged in April. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sales ...
Thu, May 18 2023, 3:04 PM
Existing home sales account for the lion's share of all home sales in the U.S. Unlike "New Home Sales," this data series tracks previously sold homes...
Tue, May 16 2023, 2:25 PM
Home builders’ attitudes about the market for newly constructed homes continued to improve in May, partially due to the lack of available pre-owned ho...
Thu, Apr 27 2023, 3:41 PM
Tue, Apr 25 2023, 12:34 PM
New home sales figures bounced higher again in Marc h, outperforming February sales by 9.6 percent. The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing a...
Thu, Apr 20 2023, 4:54 PM
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) measures the sales of previously owned homes. These so-called Existing Home Sales account for a vast major...
Mon, Apr 17 2023, 2:05 PM
The index that measures the confidence of new home builders in the market for their product inched slightly higher again in April. The National Associ...
Mon, Apr 10 2023, 11:14 AM
Fannie Mae’s monthly survey of consumers’ attitudes toward buying or selling a home and their own financial situation showed a mixture of sentiments i...
Wed, Mar 29 2023, 3:07 PM
January was a refreshingly strong month for many economic reports, but especially for metrics relating to the housing and mortgage markets. This wasn...
Wed, Mar 29 2023, 8:07 AM
Applications for both home purchases and refinancing rose for the fourth time during the week ended March 24. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) s...
Thu, Mar 23 2023, 12:08 PM
New home sales surprised everyone in January, surging by 7.5 percent to 670,000 units, the highest rate since March 2022. It was, however, only an il...
Tue, Mar 21 2023, 1:09 PM
Existing home sales emerged, at least temporarily, out of a prolonged slump last month, and weren’t even shy about it. The National Association of Rea...
Mon, Mar 6 2023, 3:27 PM
Black Knight releases a robust collection of mortgage/housing info each month via its Mortgage Monitor report. There are always more charts than we h...
Mon, Feb 27 2023, 11:27 AM
Not only did pending home sales increase for the second month in a row in January, but the increase was the largest since the June 2020 rebound from t...
Fri, Feb 24 2023, 1:19 PM
New home sales edged a little further out of a lengthy slump in January, topping 600,000 units for the second straight month. The U.S. Census Bureau a...