The Real Estate Guys™ Blog
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It might seem like a rather odd move for the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to make after Bitcoin has lost around 60% of
The red hot pandemic-era housing market is cooling as historically tight available inventory shows signs of reversing. An affordability crisis has removed millions of new home buyers
On average, the U.S. housing market has seen price appreciation of 4.4% annually since 1991. High demand and low supply have accelerated price growth
With home sales weakening across the nation (while mean home prices are surging relative to median, signaling higher-end homes dominating the sales) and homebuilder
Treasury yields rose on Monday as data on orders for durable goods and pending home sales surprised to the upside, but the sale of
US cities that saw some of the biggest jumps in home prices during the pandemic now have the largest shares of price cuts, according
After an unexpected jump in new home sales and larger than expected drop in existing home sales, today’s pending home sales print is the
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Following the disappointing tumble in existing home sales (to 2 year lows), analysts expect a modest drop in new home sales in May of
As costs of home ownership rise, millions of Americans have been pushed out of the housing market, according to Harvard University’s annual State of
Careers board Lensa produced a new study this week laying out the least and most affordable states to live in in the United States. The study
Unless you were an adult living in the US through the crisis of the 1970s into the early 1980s, you probably have no memory
A strange narrative of “defeated inflation” is circulating in the mainstream in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s recent 75bps interest rate hike, but
U.S. mortgage rates jumped more than half a percentage point this week, an increase not seen in decades and one sure to price even
Three weeks ago, we showed readers what happens when the infamous “Bullwhip effect” reversal takes place by presenting the unprecedented surge in the “Inventory
A little over a month ago, when mortgage rates were still “only” 5% we shared several devastating anecdotes from real estate agents and industry execs who
Privately‐owned housing starts in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,549,000. This is 14.4 percent below the revised April estimate of
It’s too soon to call an end to America’s worst bond-market collapse in at least half a century. Treasuries resumed losses on Thursday with
Amid surging layoffs in the real estate market, slumping homebuilder sentiment, soaring rates and plunging mortgage applications, it is no surprise that analysts expected