December 17, 2020 by Ryan McKeveny & Dennis McGill
Filed Under | affordabilityexisting home saleshome pricinghomeownershipmortgage ratesreal estate services
October 21, 2020 by Zelman & Associates
Filed Under | affordabilityhome pricingmacro housingmortgage ratessurvey
May 17, 2019 by Zelman & Associates
With more than 180 million unique monthly users of Zillow’s website or mobile app, the brand is clearly a dominant force with consumers. While it has historically monetized this audience indirectly through advertising sold to real estate professionals, ...
Filed Under | home pricingsurvey
January 11, 2019 by Zelman & Associates
With total home closings estimated to have declined 2% in 2018, the first contraction since 2011, and inventory higher on a year-over-year basis for the first time since 2014, the home price appreciation outlook is coming under greater scrutiny ...
Filed Under | home pricingsurvey
January 11, 2019 by Zelman & Associates
In its most recent monthly release for November 2018, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that the median price for existing home closings was $257,700, bringing the year-to-date figure to $257,500. With approximately 40% of ...
Filed Under | affordabilityhome pricing
October 05, 2018 by Zelman & Associates
Of late, there is an argument surfacing that new home pricing has become too expensive relative to the existing home alternative. It goes something like this: the median new home price reported by the Census Bureau over the last four quarters ...
Filed Under | affordabilityhome pricinghomebuilding
August 24, 2018 by Zelman & Associates
Two weeks ago, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) published its Housing Opportunity Index, which is intended to frame housing affordability across the country. The index is calculated on a 0-100 scale, with higher values aligned ...
Filed Under | affordabilityhome pricing
July 13, 2018 by Zelman & Associates
All real estate is local. That is a truism rarely doubted. It is often meant to convey that location matters more than most else and can often overcome other challenges. Taken further, many housing market executives spend an exorbitant amount ...
Filed Under | home pricingmacro housing
March 23, 2018 by Zelman & Associates
In 2017, the median existing home sold in the United States cost approximately $206,250, according to CoreLogic’s public record database, which we view as an appropriate proxy for the entry-level price point. That was 5.3% higher than in 2016, ...
Filed Under | affordabilityhome pricingmacro housing
July 14, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
There are various price indices that track existing home trends with sophisticated algorithms that rely on repeat sales transactions to produce high-quality datasets, including CoreLogic, Case-Shiller, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and ...
Filed Under | affordabilityhome pricingnew home sales
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