
U.S. existing home sales total 257,000 in February 2026 Since 2000, February has averaged 310,000 U.S. existing home sales Resale turnover remains constrained Table via @ResidentialClub Data via @nardotrealtor https://t.co/4g2dE9eSU5
NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.09 million SAAR in February Median House Prices Increased 0.3% Year-over-Year https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/nar-existing-home-sales-increased-836
February home sales see small rebound, but supply growth is 'sluggish' https://t.co/lU7RWyXYsP @nardotrealtor #realestate #realestateinvesting #housing
1.29 million total inventory in 2026 4,000,000 in 2007 It's 2026, the 4th year after the big sales crash in 2022. Stop dancing with a ghost 🫡
So we can move along from this 2-month period Last month's report was a holiday softness; the rebound should be discounted as well, and just forget these last two months and follow the trend that has been since mid-June
Just remember, this is the final existing home sales report that has some of the snow variable in it; our forward-looking data looks fine for the last 3 weeks https://t.co/JtXKhBSDDM

Rents In Canada Falling For 17 Straight Months: A Good News Bad News Story Let's be really clear on this: in 2023 - 2024 Rents in many Canadian cities were insanely high This constant drop in Rents was so badly needed BTW: Rents...

What many YIMBYs miss about the Austin housing supply miracle: Investors were willing to capitalize that construction, in part, bc, except in cases of *actual* emergency, Texas bans rent control at the state level. https://t.co/rl9bpQ94Cx
Q4 2024 incentives rate: Lennar —> 10.0% PulteGroup —> 7.2% Q4 2025 incentives rate: Lennar —> 14.0% PulteGroup —> 9.9%

A great dataset I recently got access to: Xactus Mortgage Intent Index. Xactus processes credit pulls in the mortgage application process. The index is based on actual apps. It is highly correlated with the Altos weekly pendings data. Now at highest...

Inventory has a shot of being negative year over year by the end of March or the first week of April if the seasonal increase doesn't happen soon. https://t.co/yYspHxEdvu
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in February Altos: Active single-family inventory was down 0.6% week-over-week https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/2nd-look-at-local-housing-markets-b1a My sense - based on limited data - is sales will be above the consensus forecast, but will likely be down slightly year-over-year.

The first two months of the year have started off with lower closed sales volume than 2025. The hope is for March 2026 to be a little higher in light of slightly more pendings lately. https://t.co/Ctj0EyVXqx
You are forgetting nobody wants their towns to get cheaper. They want their homes to appreciate and for poor people to be priced out of becoming their neighbors. The developers, landlords and homeowners in Austin are PISSED rents are dropping.

Every major metro area in Florida has experienced declining home values in the last year. Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Naples. Now even Miami is getting in on the action. Demand and sales volume continue rest at the lowest level in nearly 15 years....
Encouraged to see pro-housing voices pushing to keep build-to-rent. I'd also suggest pushing to keep "renovate-to-rent." Three things: 1) Freddie Mac wrote in 2022 that investors "heavily target under-market-value homes that need more repair than what most first-time homebuyers are willing to...
The “Corridor Gravity” Law Why 80% of Real Estate Wealth Is Created Within 2–3 km of One Road Most people buy property based on: • sector number • builder brand • brochure amenities But in real estate, the real economic unit is not the sector. It’s the...

So much talk about another 2008 price collapse, but that's very challenging to get with 2026 stats. I'm not sugarcoating. All I'm saying is very limited supply has kept prices higher. Not much of a dip over the past four...

The iconic Rockefeller Center. Ben Epstein and his team handle the leasing, and they’re crushing it. 6.5M square feet, 98% leased. Rents? The highest they’ve ever seen. Fun geeking out on the market - hard to imagine a more incredible leasing assignment anywhere. https://t.co/yBZqAs7D2v
Fact 1: On today's numbers, apartment buildings take 15-20 yrs to pay back the investment in building them. Fact 2: To justify that investment, investors need to expect the buildings to generate returns for decades thereafter. So, if your city wants private...
Are elected officials about to pass the "Rental Inflation bill?" The requirement to sell future Build-to-Rent homes to homeowners within 7 years will effectively stop the construction of rental homes, decreasing new supply and thus increasing rents. https://t.co/SEU7Kc03c3
Symptom of the low mortgage rate golden handcuffs narrative that’s keeping housing market turnover depressed
The stickiness that once anchored people and capital to great cities is gone. It is not coming back https://t.co/D0BFIOpVUy

Zillow just updated their 2026-27 rental market forecast. They're projecting single-family rent growth at only +1.1% in 2026, and +0.5% in 2027. With multifamily rents dropping -0.2% and -1.5%. They also project CPI rent growth to fall to ~1.0% by early 2027, which...

This ResiClub table helps you see through the seasonal inventory shift noise The inventory growth slope has decelerated from last year However, based on the February figure—the most important print of the year—we’re pacing a tad above the normal seasonal pace https://t.co/6IrsSaR9mW

List prices are 1.38% below last year. Home prices have been negative since October and are moving lower, relative to last year. Here's two views https://t.co/xHl3d0HNvs

Look at the distribution of units built in Bellevue, Washington. In buildings since 2010 with more than 20 units ... over 70% of new units are Studio or 1BRs, and less than 2% have 3+ bedrooms We don’t build apartments for...

High-income job declines don’t work well for the housing market. This is a trend (namely at local level) we’ve been hammering on the last few years as we maintain a weak outlook for housing in general. https://t.co/jN2DMafhy5 https://t.co/NhCzjO8knR
A game-plan that works in supply constrained markets: Identify older buildings with apartments that are too large relative to the number of beds and baths they have (for example a 1,000 sq ft one bed). During renovation, using permits, reconfigure the units...

Kinda embarrassing for the #housing 2008 crowd, and, worse than 2008. At this pace, if rates stay low, inventory might show some negative week-to-week data. 🤯🤯🤯😳😱 What a bunch of scrubs 😁😉🥂 @housingwire @sarahteresa6 read the tracker reports and join...

The housing market shifted mid-June 2025. Inventory growth was running at 33% and now it's running at 6.91% with a risk of some negative week-to-week prints. https://t.co/VgpdKDUPpd

The National Inventory is expected to turn negative at some point this year, and the percentage of price cuts is lower compared to last year. Whoever you're getting your housing info from, I would question them about this. https://t.co/AHHEytiMoR

It's actually never been cheaper to rent in Austin, TX. The Rent/Income ratio across the metro has dropped to 18.3% - the lowest on record (going back at least 20 years). Landlords are aggressively cutting rents at a time when incomes in...
"That's why we have these vacant lots, if you get rid of that (free parking) and find a median price for parking where it's kind of expensive you can then build buildings there and people will live there." - @bertkreischer ...
We should be getting the national seasonal inventory increase soon, but if, for some reason, that doesn't happen, we will have negative year-over-year inventory data by the end of March or Early April Note: For the worse than 2008 crowd...
Since 1950: U.S. home prices increased 89% Average appreciation 4–5% annually Hold real estate longer.

This is why your housing is so expensive Not Blackstone, not "greedy landlords" Just your mom, dad, & neighbors voting for NIMBY local politicians who then prevent housing from being built That's why you pay tens of thousands of dollars more than...

Las Vegas apartment vacancies are spiking. And landlords are not happy. 7.6% of Vegas apartments are now sitting vacant, the highest level in nearly 10 years. (Triple the pandemic low of 2.4%). 4 years ago, rents were soaring, and there was no availability. Now...
Another week of positive year-over-year growth in our weekly pending sales data, and it's biting inventory lower now. 😉 A lot more with tracker article this weekend
'The housing paradox: why banning institutional investors could make affordability worse' Commentary by Amherst CEO Sean Dobson in @FortuneMagazine (no paywall) https://t.co/mXFQpGRK2m

All 11 of the biggest homebuilders tracked by ResiClub are seeing year-over-year margin compression Homebuilders—especially those with a big presence in some of the softer markets in Texas and Florida—are still in cost-cutting mode ResiClub PRO report: https://t.co/w9iTXbeCx0

If you have a property that is not going to sell for what it’s worth, you might consider holding onto it, renting it out, and then selling it later on when the market is better. Follow @chasecalhoun.realestate for more on build-to-rent...
Mortgage spreads continue to keep mortgage rates in check as Iran war sp... https://t.co/iBMRx6aFsB via @YouTube

Another horrendous jobs report saved mortgage rates today. Had it come in hot, we'd likely have a 30-year fixed closer to 6.25% again during peak home buying season. Granted, w/o the conflict in Iran we'd probably be at 5.875% or lower...

Home sales peaked in 2005 Home Sales crashed from 2005 to 2008 Inventory spiked before the recession started 2005 2.5 million Inventory 2007 4,000,000 Inventory Currently at 1.22 million Normal is 2-2.5 million Credit channels have run inventory channels for...

Surging inflation and sagging employment double whammy for the fragile real estate market in 2026 https://t.co/4yrdR28tG3

Selling above or below? Here’s a look at properties that sold above, below, and at the original list price last month in the wider region. The market isn’t the same in every location. Any thoughts? https://t.co/8CHHvxLyKV

As soon as the rate shock occurred—and switching costs surged—we saw U.S. new listings fall a notch as some of that attempted churn was knocked off That effect was most acute out of the gate Ever since, we’ve slowly seen new listings...

This undershoots the mark. At @americanhousing we're already under these (in some places) Because conventional methods are labor intensive, construction is higher in places with: 1) High rents 2) Scarce labor That's why we're building in: 1) Infill Cities 2) Mountain towns
#HSP selling a 2nd tranche of its renewable energy land portfolio for £6.8m, at 6% uplift to independent valuation. ShareScope has fwd p/e 12.4 falling to 12.2 and fwd Divvy 5.1% rising to 5.2%; nice income. I don't hold.