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As the housing market navigates affordability challenges, rising loan limits offer hope for home buyers.

The U.S. real estate market is not for the timid. Another period of heart-stopping inflation, soaring mortgage rates, uncontrollably rising prices, and widespread worry about homeownership followed the unanticipated rollercoaster that was the pandemic.

Home sales aligned with expectations in October. While sales were cooler than September, the rate of sales was well above levels a year ago, according to the October New Home Market Update report from Zonda.

According to the RE/MAX National Housing Report for October, the seasonal decline of the housing market is here. Signs indicate that the softening of new home sales affected last month.

RE/MAX surveyed 53 metros for the report and noted that inventory grew for the seventh month. In short, the buyers are still hibernating.

The median down payment increased across the board in the third quarter, somewhat counterintuitive, according to Realtor.com. While down payment amounts typically increase as home sale prices increase, the increase in down payments in the third quarter came during a period when home prices were steadying.

When considering the choice between renting and buying today, the housing market balance continues to tip in favor of renters amid an uptick in multifamily construction, reveals Realtor.com’s September Rental Report.

A quarter of all baby boomers plan to move to a new city to be closer to their grandchildren, according to research from Livabl.com, the country’s premiere site for new home listings.

New-home sales remained strong through June despite the persistence of high mortgage rates in the economy, according to Zonda’s New Home Market Update report.

Thanks to exclusive data from Zonda Home, Livabl is sharing the top housing markets for 2023. This list covers the 50 hottest markets from coast to coast, as well as the 2022 market share for the top 10 builders in each area.

Domestic migration continues to follow pandemic trends, according to Bank of America Institute’s new analysis.

Despite rising rates and prices, new home sales last month are higher than March, April 2022, and April 2019 levels, according to Zonda.

Home prices inched up on a national level in February, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index. However, eight of the 20 major metro markets analyzed reported lower prices on a year-over-year basis in February.

Despite cooling interest rates, activity in the existing-home market remains constrained by low-rate homeowners reluctant to list their homes.

Edina, Minnesota; Falls Church, Virginia; and Palo Alto, California, are the country’s top three suburbs for a city-like lifestyle, according to StorageCafe.

October revealed a very different housing market than what we’ve grown accustomed to seeing. After two years of turbulence and fierce competition for homes, national…

After two years of unpredictability, fierce bidding wars and competition, things are finally looking a little more balanced for the U.S. housing market.  The national…