Zillow and Google are integrating AI-powered housing content into NotebookLM to help consumers better understand affordability, mortgage costs, and the homebuying process
A new Zillow forecast shows rent affordability improving to its best level in five years, as slowing rent growth, rising supply, and elevated vacancies provide tenants with more leverage and are expected to keep rent increases modest through 2026
Zillow forecasts that easing mortgage rates, slower price growth, and rising incomes will make homeownership affordable in 20 of the nation’s largest metros by 2026, the broadest improvement since 2022
Zillow data shows nearly $46 billion in high-value homes lay within the 2025 Palisades and Eaton wildfire zones, underscoring massive exposure to risk and long-lasting disruptions to Los Angeles’ housing and rental markets
Fueled by extreme inventory shortages, intense buyer competition, and continued home price growth, Hartford, Connecticut has supplanted Buffalo, New York as the nation's most competitive real estate market
