Despite elevated rates keeping current homeowners in place, life events like job changes and family transitions — combined with 47 million millennials still renting — will gradually bring buyers and sellers back to the housing market
High mortgage rates remain the top concern for home builders in 2026, with buyer hesitancy, lot constraints, and economic uncertainty expected to persist despite modest improvement from recent peak levels
A new poll finds that nearly all prospective homebuyers will not purchase unless mortgage rates fall below 6%, but most lack understanding of how rates are set and where they're actually headed in 2026
Ultra-luxury home sales surged in 2025 and expanded into new markets, while prices in the broader luxury segment outpaced the rest of the housing market amid tight inventory and sustained wealth-driven demand
January’s delayed and frequently revised economic data paints a mixed picture: solid GDP growth and easing housing prices alongside stubborn inflation, softening labor trends, volatile rates, and sharply weakening consumer confidence
A new Redfin report finds Black Gen Zers and millennials are half as likely as their white peers to own homes, as wage, wealth, credit, and systemic barriers continue to widen the racial homeownership gap among younger Americans
A record surge in million-dollar home sales underscores the growing influence of luxury buyers across Texas’s largest metro housing markets
Homebuyers gained significant negotiating power in 2025, with Redfin data showing the largest discounts off list prices in 13 years amid record inventory
New Redfin data shows a modest rise in home listings and easing affordability pressures, as lower mortgage rates begin drawing cautious buyers and sellers back into the market
A new study finds pandemic-era boomtown housing markets are stuck in pricing gridlock, as seller expectations and buyer payment realities collide, pushing time on market to multi-month highs in 2025