Category Archives: Housing Bubble

NY Metro starting to crack?

Posted on February 11, 2026 by grim

From the Realtors: America Slowly Tilts Toward a Buyer’s Market as Listings Pile Up in More Metros 1. Miami, FL Months of supply: 11.5 January median list price: $500,000 2. Austin, TX Months of supply: 10.5 January median list price: … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing Bubble, National Real Estate, New Jersey Real Estate, NYC | 80 Comments

Rich people drive home prices, not supply

Posted on February 10, 2026 by grim

From Fortune: We may be looking at the housing affordability crisis all wrong. Higher earners are driving home prices, not lack of supply, researchers say According to a recent note written by UC Irvine PhD student Schuyler Louie along with San Francisco … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 61 Comments

NJ leads the nation

Posted on February 4, 2026 by grim

From ROI-NJ: N.J. home price surge bucks national trend of price growth hitting softest rate since Great Recession Cotality, a provider of property information, analytics, and data-enabled solutions, released its Home Price Index for December 2025 data Feb. 3, revealing … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate, New Jersey Real Estate | 138 Comments

The Bank of Mom and Dad Just Went Ultra-Luxury

Posted on February 2, 2026 by grim

From Yahoo Finance: How $6T In Inherited Wealth Is Transforming the Luxury Real Estate Market As the great wealth transfer shifts from a theoretical forecast to a tangible economic force, demand for luxury real estate is increasing. An estimated $6 … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 91 Comments

So much for spring?

Posted on January 25, 2026 by grim

From Newsweek: US housing market gets three bleak signs in first month of 2026 After a year marked by elevated mortgage rates, multifaceted affordability issues and resultingly weak buyer demand, the opening weeks of 2026 have already offered several concerning … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Housing Bubble, Mortgages, National Real Estate | 306 Comments

Not many in the Northeast either

Posted on January 24, 2026 by grim

From FastCompany: 106 housing markets are seeing falling home prices—and not a single one is in the Midwest

Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 141 Comments

So much for stabilization

Posted on January 23, 2026 by grim

From Wolf Street: Pending Home Sales Plunge across the US. Midwest Sees Worst Sales on Record, Northeast 2nd Worst Pending home sales, which track the number of contracts signed in December, plunged by 9.3% seasonally adjusted from November, to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 117 Comments

Endgame?

Posted on January 17, 2026 by grim

From New Jersey Digest: Jersey City Is No Longer a Stepping Stone to NYC: Realtors Say Buyers Are Staying Put For years, Jersey City played a familiar role in the New York real estate ecosystem. It was the place people … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Gold Coast, Housing Bubble, New Jersey Real Estate | 73 Comments

Don’t bother, you can’t afford it

Posted on January 13, 2026 by grim

From National Mortgage Professional: Home Prices Continue To Outpace Wages, Keeping Affordability Under Pressure ATTOM’s Q4 Home Affordability Report paints a picture of persistent strain for prospective homebuyers across the U.S., even as modest improvements emerged late in the year. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, Housing Bubble | 82 Comments

Now you can speculate on real estate without owning anything…

Posted on January 6, 2026 by grim

From Polymarket: Polymarket and Parcl Announce Partnership to Launch Real Estate Prediction Markets Powered by Parcl Indices Parcl, the real-time housing data and onchain real estate platform, and Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, today announced a partnership to bring Parcl’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 54 Comments

The future of residential real estate in the Northeast?

Posted on January 5, 2026 by grim

Fr0m Money Canada: This couple built a $500K ADU in their parents’ backyard to beat $1.8M home prices — but there are trade-offs. Is there a better way? Unattainable home ownership due to increasingly exorbitant home prices is something that … Continue reading →

Posted in Crisis, Demographics, Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 102 Comments

Time to buy Florida?

Posted on January 4, 2026 by grim

From the Daily Mail: Condo crash deepens as cities see prices plunge nearly 20% – the worst slide since the Great Financial Crisis Florida‘s condo slump is now the worst since the Great Financial Crisis — and the numbers are getting hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 54 Comments

Pending home sales tick up

Posted on December 30, 2025 by grim

From Marketplace: Pending home sales are on the rise, which could be good news for the new year There’s a spark of good news for the housing market as 2025 draws to a close: Pending home sales shot up by more … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 66 Comments

Who is going to blink first?

Posted on December 26, 2025 by grim

From Redfin: The U.S. Housing Market Has 37% More Sellers Than Buyers—More Than Double Last Year’s Gap There were an estimated 37.2% more home sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market in November (or 529,770 more, in numerical terms)—the … Continue reading →

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Uncertainty about ’26

Posted on December 24, 2025 by grim

From Resiclub: Zillow updates its home price forecast across over 400 housing markets Zillow economists just published their updated 12-month forecast, projecting that U.S. home prices—as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index—will rise +2.0% between November 2025 and November 2026.  Heading … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate | 90 Comments