builder confidence falls in august marketwatch.com/story/one-thir…

Good summary from ⁦⁦Aarthi Swaminathan⁩ on today’s soft NAHB housing print and the mortgage rate buydown incentive programs homebuilders continue to lean on. marketwatch.com/story/one-thir…

freddie mac's weekly rates are out and the 30-year inches up 2 bp but for buyers "it is about more than just the interest rate" one housing economist says marketwatch.com/story/mortgage…

new-home construction fell to lowest level in over 4 years, per new data this morn single-family starts dragged the overall number down... builders scaled back in July marketwatch.com/story/new-home…

we now have a sense of what Harris is planning re: housing as affordability has been so low here's my first peel -- more to come! thanks to everyone i interviewed, have tons of insights i plan to include in upcoming stories as we cover the 2024 election marketwatch.com/story/kamala-h…

looking for people to interview for a story specifically, ppl in the process of buying a house, or recently decided to stop bc you want to wait for the elections to be over wondering if at all the election is making you anxious about buying/selling 📥[email protected]

heyyy MarketWatch gets a shout out on Industry!! pic credit Mike Murphy

Bye-bye, DIYs: Lowe’s and Home Depot say people are putting off home-renovation projects marketwatch.com/story/bye-bye-…

existing home sales rose 1.3% in july vs a month ago still down 2.5% from a year ago other bits: inventory up 19.8% from year ago median price up 4.2% from year ago ($422,600) properties on the market for 24 days (up from 20 last july) marketwatch.com/story/home-sal…

Mortgage rates inch down, but home buyers remain ‘lethargic’ “We expect rates [will likely] need to decline another percentage point to generate buyer demand.” marketwatch.com/story/mortgage…

Sales of newly built homes in the U.S. surged unexpectedly in July, as home builders saw a bump in demand due to falling mortgage rates. Sales are at the highest level since May 2023. It was also the biggest increase in nearly two years. marketwatch.com/story/new-home…

Home-price growth moderates in June but still reaches new record high, Case-Shiller says Home prices in the 20 biggest U.S. metropolitan areas set another record high in June but showed signs of a prolonged and gradual slowdown. marketwatch.com/story/home-pri…

interesting paper on pollution & housing prices: in areas exposed to smoke plumes from wildfires, "rental prices decrease by about 0.7% per one µg/m3 increase in PM2.5" "home prices decrease by about 4% for the same increase." dallasfed.org/research/econo…

The 30-year mortgage rate fell for the fourth week in a row to the lowest level since April 2023 — but the response from home buyers, as well as homeowners looking to refinance, was muted. marketwatch.com/story/mortgage…

Applications for mortgages ticked up as mortgage rates fell for the fifth week in a row. marketwatch.com/story/home-buy…

California, New Jersey and Illinois had the highest concentrations of local housing markets at greatest risk of a downturn, according to the property-data firm Attom. marketwatch.com/story/these-ho…

Mortgage rates stalled in the latest week, as the market awaits a key economic report about the U.S. labor market. marketwatch.com/story/mortgage…

been a few weeks since the NAR settlement went into effect -- anything weird, funny, shady, strange that real-estate agents have seen/are seeing?