Housing Market Decoded: The top 5 market trends in 2025
After several atypical years, the real estate market is expected to settle into a new normal, with lower rates, more sales and improving affordability.
December 16, 2024
Housing Market Decoded
- Housing Market Decoded: Can we predict where mortgage rates are headed?A range of competing factors are driving volatility in rates, making it harder to forecast their direction — but they're likely to decline further this year.October 16, 2024
- Housing Market Decoded: The housing deficit, and how to fix itHousing issues have made their way into presidential politics, but federal policies are unlikely to make a dent in the undersupply in the short-term.September 23, 2024
- Housing Market Decoded: Why 'rent vs buy' misses the big pictureLists and calculators can be a starting point for prospective buyers weighing their options, but the decision to purchase a home is based on more than data.August 28, 2024
More Housing Market Decoded
- Housing Market Decoded: Is prime shopping season about to hit?The pendulum is swinging in buyers' favor this fall. See which three trends could finally give them some leverage.August 20, 2024
- Housing Market Decoded: Why are home prices still rising?High mortgage rates, which increase the cost of buying, should push prices down — right? But the relationship between rates and home prices isn’t that simple.July 17, 2024
- Housing Market Decoded: Why is inflation so sticky?It’s all about housing, which has an outsized effect on the Consumer Price Index — and is contributing to the Fed’s lack of action on interest rates.June 19, 2024
- Housing Market Decoded: The mortgage rate 'lock-in' effectRates have gone up considerably in the past few years, but is the fear of losing a low-rate mortgage really keeping homeowners from selling?May 15, 2024
- Housing Market Decoded: 3 factors that could affect summer home salesGet answers to the big questions on everyone's mind: What will happen with inventory and mortgage rates — and will the NAR settlement impact the market?April 17, 2024
- Housing Market Decoded: Why 2023 mortgage rate predictions missed the markA year ago, many economists forecast that rates would fall within the 5-6% range by the end of 2023, but the economy didn’t behave as expected.November 30, 2023
- Housing Market Decoded: Where is inventory headed? What housing starts revealNew construction homes and multifamily housing are on different tracks. Here’s why that matters, and what’s coming in the next year.September 2, 2023
- Housing Market Decoded: Don't expect price drops... yetA correction doesn't seem likely this year, but things could improve in 2024 if mortgage rates settle around 5%, says economist Matthew Gardner.July 21, 2023
- Housing Market Decoded: Fair Housing At 55Expanding homeownership remains a crucial task, says Dr. Lisa Sturtevant, as the White-Black homeownership gap is even wider now than it was in 1970.April 28, 2023
- Housing Market Decoded: Low interest rates were a blessing and a curseBuyers might long for pandemic-era mortgage rates, but economist Matthew Gardner cautions that the "bad & the ugly" impacts outweighed the good ones.April 24, 2023
- Housing Market Decoded: Have mortgage rates peaked?Zillow Chief Economist Skylar Olsen looks at the state of mortgage rates and ways agents can help buyers and sellers in this rebalancing cycle.February 8, 2023
- Housing Market Decoded: 6 housing stats to watchHousing data is everywhere, and keeping up with the stream of new information can be challenging. Dr. Paul Bishop highlights a few key data points to follow.December 29, 2022
