Builder Confidence Flat as Developers Parse War, Rates
While confidence among homebuilders remains overall negative, there was a slight uptick in positivity in March as some market conditions...
Posts by Claudia Larsen
The Silent Shift: How Baby Boomers Are Quietly Reshaping the Real Estate Relocation Market
Baby Boomers, roughly 20% of the U.S. population, control about 41% of America’s real estate assets and a major share...
Fed’s Favorite Inflation Measure Remains Elevated
Despite some reports showing lower trends in inflation, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure continues to remain elevated ahead of...
Condo or House? Helping Clients Decide Which Makes More Sense
With home prices still elevated in much of the country, condos have become more realistic for buyers determined to exit...
Housing Starts ‘Unseasonably High,’ but Overall Data Is a ‘Mixed Bag’
Housing starts saw quite an unexpected jump this January—however, overall construction data paints an unsure picture for the coming months,...
Higher Mortgage Rates Were Supposed to Cool Home Prices. How ‘Rate Lock-In Effect’ Got in the Way
When the Federal Reserve began aggressively raising interest rates in 2022, many analysts expected home prices to fall. But they...
Inflation Trends Lower, but Future Uncertain With Rising Geopolitical Tensions
Inflation appeared to once again be on the right track for the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal, according to the latest...
Existing-Home Sales See Spark in ‘Potential’ Pre-Spring Buying Preview
Ahead of the much-awaited spring season, existing-home sales have seen a modest improvement that has been characterized as a “potential”...
Buyer Commission Lawsuit Against Howard Hanna Will Move Forward
While Howard Hanna saw some allegations thrown out in the homebuyer commission lawsuit facing the brokerage in the Eastern District...
The Spring Issue of Real Estate Magazine Is Now Live
The Spring issue of RISMedia’s Real Estate magazine is now available, and not to be missed are several exclusive features,...
What Recent Pre-Marketing Studies Say About Pricing, Policy and Privacy
How can the industry (and you) use data to steer policy and clients in a direction that best serves everyone—whether that is toward “seller choice” or “transparency,” or perhaps both? Read more.
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