The onset of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 set off a wave of domestic migration that reoriented housing markets across the country, turning some metro areas into boomtowns and sinking a number of others. The prevailing narrative around this phenomenon took on a life of its own — a mass exodus from urban cities in […]
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Industry professionals were full of optimism heading into the spring that the housing market could pick up after a sluggish start to 2025. But heading into the summer, that optimism has largely faded. Existing-home sales are hovering around 4 million and many markets that are typically fruitful for homebuilders have stalled. In its midyear housing
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Experienced auction buyers expect to buy more this year, but at lower prices. Meanwhile auction sellers are expecting more foreclosures with less equity. Despite the tariff-triggered uncertainty hovering over the economy in recent months — or possibly because of it — experienced buyers of distressed properties at auction have remained remarkably optimistic about their property
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To start things off, I have an announcement to make, today will be my last weekly article for Altos Research. I founded Altos nearly 20 years ago to bring a new level of analytics and data to the housing market. Two and a half years ago, Altos was acquired by HousingWire, and it’s been tremendously
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The weekly pending home sales picked up this week as expected, with 2.6% more pending home sales contracts started than a year ago. If you’re following the data closely, you know that home sales are still running at or below last year’s pace. Year to date, through the first week of May, we count 3%
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