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2022 was a wild year for the real estate market as interest rates climbed and inflation soared. The new year is looking to be rife with challenges for both buyers and sellers, as mortgage rates are...
The housing market is poised to be a mixed bag in 2025, with reduced interest rates, shifting demand and other economic and societal changes affecting the market, according to a new report from...
In July, the housing market had a 4.0-month supply of housing inventory, a 19.8 percent improvement over last year but still below the 5 to 6 months needed for a healthy, balanced market — one ...
A real estate trend is any consistent pattern or change in the general direction of the real estate industry which, over the course of time, causes a statistically noticeable change. This phenomenon can be a result of the economy, a change in mortgage rates, consumer speculations, or other fundamental and non-fundamental reasons.
Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It aims to describe and predict economic patterns of supply and demand . The closely related field of housing economics is narrower in scope, concentrating on residential real estate markets, while the research on real estate trends focuses on the business ...
“The inputs for building housing are materials, labor, and capital,” said Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, a real estate and finance professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
A real-estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets, and it typically follows a land boom or reduce interest rates. [1]
While the housing market improved for buyers over the course of 2024, it remains tight enough that 2025 is likely to remain a seller’s market in most areas. The good news is that inventories and ...