The Housing Bubble Blog

A report from WLOS in North Carolina. "Chris Hellier was excited to list her 1500-square-foot Fairview condo with sunset views in June, confident it would sell quickly at $425,000. 'Everyone who comes in and looks at it, real estate agents, neighbors, say, 'This is so beautiful. This is going to...

A report from WESH. "Homeowners in Central Florida are still struggling to get insurance payouts and rebuild their lives months after Hurricane Milton made landfall in October 2024. Sandra and Arnie Brazis walked WESH 2 through their Ormond Beach home of nearly 40 years after a massive tree crashed...

A report from Gulf Shore Business on Florida. "Homebuyers in the Naples area have more choices and slightly lower prices this summer, bucking the usual seasonal slowdown. Inventory rose 18.2% year over year in June to 5,885 homes, the highest summer inventory in the past decade, according to a...

A report from WPTV in Florida. "As of July 28, Palm Beach County has the largest inventory of homes on the market, totaling over 13,000 active homes for sale. A Treasure Coast couple spoke with WPTV about their struggle to sell their property as they plan to make space for a growing family. Brian...

A weekend topic starting with Strong Towns. "There’s a theory about housing that has taken hold with a kind of religious fervor: If you want to make housing more affordable, just build more of it. But here’s the question almost no one asks: What happens when prices actually start to fall? Because...

A report from WMAR in Maryland. "Real estate agent Michelle Pappas has been selling real estate for 21 years, riding out the housing market's twists and turns. Especially, in the last six months. Pappas says she's noticed some changes recently. 'The comps aren't quite lining up with the current...

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Cape Coral homeowner Larry Bray listed his house for sale in April and thought he had a deal. 'We got a low-ball offer and accepted it because it was still within what we could afford to leave it for, and then it fell through,' he said. The home is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td0pO67tJzs A report from WINK in Florida. "In Immokalee, Habitat for Humanity is working to fill vacant homes in the new Kaicasa neighborhood. About 40% of the homes are complete, but many remain unoccupied. The Kaicasa community is expected to include 280 homes...

A report from the Tampa Bay Times in Florida. "Nearly a thousand sales analyzed by the Times involved a home that sustained storm damage, according to a review of construction permits, substantial damage letters issued by local governments and code enforcement records. But since municipalities...

A report from the Latin Times. "A growing number of immigrants in Florida are selling their homes due to mounting legal uncertainty, according to a Miami Herald report. Real estate broker Gisela Rojas, who operates in Orlando and Miami, told the Herald that she's seeing an uptick in clients, mainly...

A report from the Alachua Chronicle in Florida. "Affordable housing is the latest in a long line of government schemes to control not just the less fortunate, but the affluent as well. How? Simple. When government takes from one people-group to give to another, it controls both — because, in the...

A report from Market Watch. "'The housing sector has weakened in 2025 due to poor affordability conditions, particularly from elevated interest rates,' Buddy Hughes, a home builder and developer from Lexington, N.C., and the chair of the NAHB, said in a statement. Cuts in home prices haven’t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1qP1DmJdg A report from Fox 35 Orlando. "Buyers say they were promised their dream homes. But after three years of delays, silence from the builder, and mounting frustration, they’re still waiting — and now the City of Palm Bay is preparing to demolish the...

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "According to Florida Realtors, the Naples metropolitan statistical region (MSA), which encompasses Immokalee and Marco Island, saw the largest decline in median sale prices in the single-family market between May 2024 and May 2025. Despite being far...

A report from Fast Company. "Back in June 2022, this home at 1137 Treasure Cay Court in Punta Gorda, Florida, was purchased for $985,000. Just one month later, home prices in the Punta Gorda metro area peaked, and the market slipped into what ResiClub calls 'correction mode.' In April 2025, the...

A report from Community Impact in Texas. "As the national real estate market shows signs of slowing, Unlock MLS data shows homes are generally spending more time on the market and home prices are coming back down in the Northwest Austin area on average. For homeowners looking to sell, however, this...

A report from CNBC. "Overinflated home prices, high mortgage rates, rising supply and falling demand are all joining forces to cool the nation’s housing market. Nearly one-third of the largest 100 markets are now showing annual price declines of at least a full percentage point from recent highs,...

A report from WTVR. "The days of frenzied bidding wars and offers well above asking price may be coming to an end as the housing market shows signs of cooling down. Home sales across the country have slowed to their lowest pace in 16 years, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales...

A report from the Kenbridge Victoria Dispatch. "By the end of May, home sales had spiked in Nottoway County. The same is true of Amelia and even a slight uptick in nearby Brunswick, according to the Virginia Realtors. It’s the opposite in Lunenburg, Charlotte and Prince Edward. Virginia Realtors’...

A report from the Dallas Morning News in Texas. "The stock of Dallas-Fort Worth housing inventory has increased to 4.7 months. That’s the highest since July 2012. There were 35,555 active listings in the region, up 37.2% from last May. More sellers are double-listing their properties, offering the...