The Housing Bubble Blog

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Markets like Phoenix and Las Vegas, which saw a boom in sales during the pandemic, are now experiencing a glut of homes for sale, said Jeff Tucker, senior economist at Zillow. 'There are a lot of homes on the market, and that does put downward...

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A report from the Union Tribune in California. "San Diego County's home price has dropped for the sixth month and is close to erasing all yearly price gains. Jeff Grant, owner and agent with Sand & Sea Investments, has a listing in Solana Beach that recently went on sale for $1.9 million and...

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A report from the Dallas Morning News. "'There’s no doubt about it, the market is slowing down from a very high peak,' said Texas A&M economist Jim Gaines. Homebuilders also saw a dramatic decline in sales that led them to slow construction of new homes and opt out of buying more land. In the...

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A report from the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. "For the two decades Erika Patino’s parents owned their modest two-family in Hyde Park, the house was a rock for them, their ticket to economic stability. As federal and state rental assistance programs dried up last year, the Patinos stopped...

A report from NPR. "'People are stuck,' says Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors. Yun and others describe the market as frozen, one in which home sales activity has declined for 10 months straight, according to NAR. It's the longest streak of declines since the...

A weekend topic starting with The Atlantic. "Timing isn’t the only external factor determining whether homeownership 'works' for Americans. Paying off a mortgage is a form of 'forced savings,' in which people save by paying for shelter rather than consciously putting money aside. According to a...

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A weekend topic starting with the Los Angeles Times. "While it's hard to predict what comes next, economists said it's doubtful rates will fall back to 3% or below anytime soon. That's in part because such rock-bottom rates were the result of extremely loose monetary policy during the height of the...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "In June 2021, when the cryptocurrency markets were soaring, the developers of the Arte condominium in Miami’s Surfside neighborhood announced that a buyer had purchased a penthouse there for $22.5 million in cryptocurrency. The deal was heralded as...

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A report from Money. "When Bob J. saw a model home he liked in a subdivision northwest of Dallas in October, a quick 24-hour negotiation with the builder netted him a savings of $125,000, free furniture and a fully decked out backyard already complete with a pool. 'My real estate agent knew that...

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A report from Reuters. "U.S. single-family homebuilding tumbled to a 2-1/2-year low in November and permits for future construction plunged. It put residential investment on track to contract for the seventh consecutive quarter, which would be the longest such stretch since the collapse of the...

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A report from the Herald Tribune in Florida. "'Sellers are listening more to their agents and being more realistic with asking prices,' noted Ellen O’Day, the managing broker for two of our Coldwell Banker Realty offices in Sarasota." The Los Angeles Times in California. "Just weeks after Los...