Category Archives: Demographics

Foreigners can afford it

Posted on September 22, 2025 by grim

From Newsweek: America’s High Mortgage Rates Aren’t Deterring Foreign Buyers While many Americans have dropped out of the housing market in recent months, with sales falling year-over-year in six out of the past eight months, the number of foreign buyers … Continue reading →

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Unaffordable at any rate

Posted on September 20, 2025 by grim

From WaPo: The cities where buying a house is most and least affordable as mortgage rates change When mortgage rates dropped to historic lows in 2021, below 3 percent, Britt Vaughan met with a real estate agent and tried to … Continue reading →

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Sorry about your job

Posted on September 19, 2025 by grim

From NJBIA: NJ Unemployment Rate Climbs to 5% in August  New Jersey businesses added 4,900 jobs in August, but the unemployment rate climbed to 5.0%, the highest it has been in three and a half years, according to preliminary estimates … Continue reading →

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Coming for us next?

Posted on September 16, 2025 by grim

From Newsweek: Florida’s Housing Market Has ‘Flipped’ for Homebuyers Florida’s housing market has “flipped” for homebuyers, according to real estate analyst Nick Gerli, but not the way they might have wished for. While the Sunshine State can solidly be considered a … Continue reading →

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Dip in rates gets buyers moving again

Posted on September 12, 2025 by grim

Why homebuyers are rushing back sooner than expected There’s good news for prospective homebuyers and current homeowners. Mortgage rates have ticked down in recent weeks. Unsurprisingly, the downtrend has caused the number of mortgage applications to surge, benefiting current homeowners. … Continue reading →

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Will the drop in rates reignite the market?

Posted on September 10, 2025 by grim

From the Realtors: August 2025 Monthly Housing Market Trends Report Where Housing Inventory Is Growing the Fastest Inventory increased in all four major U.S. regions in August, but the pace of that growth has slowed recently. At the metro level, all … Continue reading →

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The most valuable market in the world?

Posted on September 9, 2025 by grim

From CNN: America’s housing market gained $20,000,000,000,000 in 5 years Buying a home has become increasingly pricey in the past few years. Now, Zillow has put a staggering number to those higher costs: America’s housing market has climbed 57% since … Continue reading →

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Krugman on housing

Posted on September 7, 2025 by grim

From Paul Krugman: Yes, America Has a Housing Emergency Something strange may be about to happen. It looks as if Trump officials will soon declare that we face a national housing emergency — and they’ll be telling the truth! We … Continue reading →

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Housing prices to “normalize”

Posted on September 1, 2025 by grim

We’ve heard this before… From Fortune: The housing market is no longer a wealth-building engine as home prices continue to slump High home prices and mortgage rates have created unaffordable conditions for many Americans, but the housing market’s ability to … Continue reading →

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Canada – take the money and run

Posted on August 30, 2025 by grim

From Mortgage Professional: Canadians are flocking away from the US housing market More than half of Canadians who own US residential properties are considering selling within the next year, according to a Royal LePage survey.   Of those planning to sell, 62% … Continue reading →

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July Market Highlights

Posted on August 29, 2025 by grim

From mycentraljersey.com: How the Central Jersey real estate market performed last month New Jersey’s hot real estate market did not cool in July, as the average single-family home sold for $776,166, a 6.6% increase over July 2024. The county with … Continue reading →

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Tale of two markets

Posted on August 28, 2025 by grim

From Parcl Labs: Regional Divide as New Construction Cracks: August Motivated Seller Update This summer Parcl Labs launched the Motivated Seller Index (MSI): a real-time, 0-10 metric scoring seller urgency based on days on market, price-cut frequency, cut velocity, and … Continue reading →

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Praying for a refi

Posted on August 26, 2025 by grim

From Fortune: Millennials and Gen Z are gambling on a big mortgage-rate drop, using ARMs and refinancing. But that could be a ‘financial ticking time bomb’ Mortgage rates have remained elevated since 2023 and home prices are at record highs, locking … Continue reading →

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Buyers Walking Away

Posted on August 25, 2025 by grim

From the Hill: Home purchases are getting canceled at a record rate: Redfin Home sales are falling through at the highest rate in years, as record prices, elevated mortgage rates and economic uncertainty lead more buyers to walk away. More than 15 percent … Continue reading →

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Market on Pause

Posted on August 23, 2025 by grim

From Fox Business: It’s a buyer’s market and nobody is buying: Where Is Jerome Powell? If you’ve flipped through the real-estate pages lately – or just tried to pull up Redfin or Zillow – something’s glaringly obvious. Nobody’s moving and nobody’s buying homes right now.   Recently, I took a glance on Zillow at one of the hottest markets in Florida, which is Route 30A in … Continue reading →

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