Market Updates

The real estate market tends to slow down in the fall and winter. Spring and summer are far more popular with home shoppers. But last fall, in ...

Finding the right home involves a little bit of luck. After all, the chances that there'll be a place in your price range, with all of the features ...

Buying a home means making an investment in the real estate market. And, while it may not be your main motivation for buying, the chance that you'll ...

Last year's housing market had its challenges. Though there was plenty of interest from home buyers, too few homes for sale, rising interest rates, ...

The National Association of Realtors' Pending Home Sales Index measures the number of contracts signed to buy homes during a given month. Since it ...

Home buyers hoping for some good news heading into the spring buying season may find it in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's most recent House ...

Builders build the homes we buy and live in but they also serve another important purpose. They are a good barometer for where the real estate ...

Spring is the busiest season for home buyers. So, naturally, there's a lot of analysis of buying conditions as it approaches. Things like mortgage ...

A recent survey asked 100 real estate economists and experts for their housing market predictions. And though they had varied views on topics like ...

When shopping for something, having more to choose from is generally a good thing. And, when the thing you're shopping for is a house, that's ...

The real estate market is typically slower in the fall and winter. So, it's not that surprising to see homes for sale are staying on the market ...

The end of the year is typically the time when experts and prognosticators make predictions for the year ahead. And while it's not easy to see into ...

In some ways, builders are good predictors of where the housing market is headed. Since their business is dependent on knowing whether or not ...

If you compare the 'number of people who want to buy homes' to the 'number of homes available to buy,' you can get a pretty good sense of where ...

Market conditions will differ from one neighborhood to the next. That's why it's said that real estate is all about location. One area can be hot ...

When you're in the middle of something, it can be hard to see things clearly. Only after you've gained some perspective and had time to reflect do ...

Home prices have been increasing for a while. Driven by high buyer demand and a lower-than-normal number of homes for sale, values have been on the ...