U.S. housing inventory growth slows to 10% in 2026

U.S. housing inventory growth slows to 10% in 2026

Housing inventory growth has slowed from 33% year over year in mid-2025 to 10.0% today. The cooling marks the clearest end to the supply-shortage era and the beginning of a market where... Read more »
Skyrocketing health care costs threaten early retirement

Skyrocketing health care costs threaten early retirement

Middle-income Americans ages 50 to 64 are most at risk, according to KFF data cited in a recent report from Kiplinger.   This group is too young for Medicare and could see... Read more »
Defeasance may be the way out

Defeasance may be the way out

For the past several years, the U.S. housing market has faced an unusual constraint: not a lack of  buyers, but a lack of sellers willing — or able — to move. Millions... Read more »
DOJ opens criminal investigation into Federal Reserve and Powell

DOJ opens criminal investigation into Federal Reserve and Powell

“This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or... Read more »
The impact of lower mortgage rates on housing inventory

The impact of lower mortgage rates on housing inventory

Weekly housing inventory data Housing inventory is expected to set a seasonal low sometime early in 2026, hopefully sooner rather than later. We don’t want what happened in 2023, when the seasonal... Read more »
Elon Musk says retirement savings could become ‘irrelevant’

Elon Musk says retirement savings could become ‘irrelevant’

Musk envisions a future of unprecedented productivity, where advances in artificial intelligence, energy and robotics produce economic “abundance” and even a so-called “universal high income” that might make long-term savings unnecessary, Business... Read more »
December jobs data continues to support lower mortgage rates

December jobs data continues to support lower mortgage rates

From BLS: Both total nonfarm payroll employment (+50,000) and the unemployment rate (4.4 percent) changed little in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in... Read more »
Real estate leaders weigh in on potential ban on large investors

Real estate leaders weigh in on potential ban on large investors

“This is a lot of saber rattling,” Murray told HousingWire. “It’s also going to depend on who’s doing the measuring, and I’ve done a lot of research on this in years past.... Read more »
DOJ leadership halted antitrust review of Compass–Anywhere deal

DOJ leadership halted antitrust review of Compass–Anywhere deal

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Bloomberg, antitrust enforcers at  the Department of Justice (DOJ) wanted to investigate Compass’s recently closed acquisition of Anywhere, but they were blocked by senior... Read more »
Mortgage rates dip, sparking potential refinance surge

Mortgage rates dip, sparking potential refinance surge

The estimate is based on rate changes since 2000 and should be interpreted as “directional rather than structural,” the analysts wrote in a report released Friday. Refis, which accounted for roughly 28%... Read more »