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Apartment demand in the Midwest has quietly become one of the strongest stories in American housing, even as the national rental market cooled. RentCafe, using data from its sister apartment rental analytics provider, Yardi matrixlisted Cincinnati as the best apartment market to watch this rental season. Minneapolis, Cleveland and Kansas City, Missouri, ranked in the […]
With mortgage rates near 6%, weekly housing demand recovered as winter weather effects began to fade from the data. The improvement appears to be more related to normalization after the late January snowstorm than to a structural acceleration in market activity. New listings also rose week on week, reinforcing signs that weather-related disruptions are easing. […]
Pessimists are now telling you that housing in Dallas/Fort Worth is tipping over. Starts are down. Stock has run out. The margins are thinner than during the peak years of 2021 and 2022. This is technically true. It is also a misleading conclusion. What the doom crowd misses is the distinction between a cyclical reset […]
The late January snowstorm that blanketed much of the US is now clearly visible in the national housing data. After showing only mild effects the week before, homebuilding activity fell on several key measures, led by new homes and pending sales. Yet the broader market picture remains intact. Inventory growth is slowing, the share of […]
The national housing market ended January with relatively little movement from week to week, but the latest data shows a market increasingly shaped by regional differences rather than a single national trend. Prices, inventory and time on market all point to stabilization at the national level, even as local conditions continue to vary. National conditions […]
Housing stock growth has slowed from 33% year-on-year in mid-2025 to 10.0% now. The slowdown marks the clearest end to the era of supply shortages and the beginning of a market in which pricing power will be determined more by the strength of demand, rates and buyer behavior than by scarcity alone. As HousingWire principal […]
The data reflects conditions in the single-family home market as of the January 3, 2026 weekly snapshot, based on proprietary data from HousingWire. Housing markets are often judged by size: total sales, total dollar volume, total number of listings. These metrics describe where activity is concentrated. They do not reliably indicate where competition is increasing, […]
After housing market cycles characterized by extreme shortages, rapid price increases and frantic buyer competition, this year delivered something closer to equilibrium. Inventories rose significantly, price growth leveled off and homes took longer to sell – signs that the market was settling into a more sustainable rhythm. Based on data through December 20, you can […]
In recent years, the housing market has been determined more by what didn’t happen than by what did happen. Homeowners didn’t move. The stock has not been rebuilt. Affordability has not improved significantly. Extremely low pandemic-era mortgage rates created a lock-in dynamic unlike anything seen in modern housing history, freezing mobility and pushing existing home […]
Nearly half of home sellers in the Kansas City metro lowered their asking prices in the week ending Nov. 29, 2025, as the market navigates a delicate balance between rising inventory and declining buyer activity. The price reduction rate of 45.2% coincides with an increase in the number of active homes to 4,723 homes, while […]
