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Highlights September 2025 rental trends – September 2025 marks the 26th straight month of year-over-year rent decline for 0-2 bedroom properties since trend data began in 2020. Asking rents dipped by $36, or -2.1%, year over year. – The median asking rent in the 50 largest metros registered at $1,703, $56 (-3.2%) lower than itsRead …

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Key takeaways – Borrowers have more control over their mortgage rate than they might think, even in a high-rate environment. – Improving your credit score from “good” (660–720) to “very good” (720–760) can lower mortgage rates by about 0.11 percentage points on average–saving almost $10,000 over the life of a typical loan. – Putting 20%Read …

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September 2025 existing-home sales Existing-home sales picked up in September climbing 1.5% from August to a 4.06 million sales seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales also notched a third straight gain over their year-ago pace (3.90M), rising 4.1%. Pending home sales rose in August and were also higher than the prior year. Buyers responded as mortgageRead …

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Freddie Mac Mortgage Rates—Oct. 23, 2025 Mortgage rates just dropped to 6.19%, their lowest level in over a year. Markets await next week’s Fed rate cut, while buyers get a rare affordability boost heading into fall. What happened to mortgage rates this week The Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.19% this weekRead …

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The Fall 2025 Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Housing Market Ranking Motor City Momentum: Detroit Leads Takes the Top Spot The Motor City moves up two spots to claim the number one luxury market for the latest Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Housing Market Ranking. Detroit now takes the top spot, dethroning St. Louis, Missouri, and topping other affordableRead …

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Introduction The fall housing market offered buyers slightly better conditions as easing mortgage rates and a modest rise in inventory improved both affordability and choice. Mortgage rates began July near 6.7% and fell to roughly 6.26% by late September, their lowest level since early spring. The rate relief, though modest, helped bring some buyers backRead …

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Welcome to this weekly housing trends update, where we bring you the latest snapshot of inventory trends, listing activity, and buyer-seller dynamics across the U.S. housing market. In addition to our monthly housing trends reports, which offer deeper insights into long-term patterns, we publish these weekly updates to provide more timely views into market changes.Read …

Weekly Housing Trends: Latest Data as of Oct. 18 Read More »

Do you and your team feel stuck on a never-ending content treadmill, writing blogs, filming videos, and posting updates just to keep up? The pace of content creation can wear anyone out. But here’s the thing: you may not need to make more content. You just need to make better use of what you alreadyRead …

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