D.R. Horton’s latest results highlight a challenge facing homebuilders heading into 2027: delivering more homes while protecting profits as buyers struggle with affordability. The company closed 23,983 homes in its fiscal third quarter ended June 30, up 4% from a year...
The national housing market may be losing momentum, but buyers aren’t disappearing everywhere. They are concentrating. New Realtor.com Economic Research released Tuesday shows that the country’s most competitive housing markets remain clustered almost...
Every month, the housing industry gets another collection of national numbers. Home prices are up. Sales are down. Inventory is improving. Affordability is getting worse. Builder confidence moved. Mortgage applications changed. We report those numbers because they...
The late-summer housing market is giving buyers something they have spent much of the past several years waiting for: leverage. Whether enough buyers can afford to use it is another question. New listings rose 0.4% from the previous week during the four weeks ending...
I have lost track of how many times housing has supposedly been six months away from getting better. There is always another forecast. Rates are going to come down in the spring. Buyers will return after some future event. Inventory will improve next year. The Fed...