Panel Also Forecasts Stagnant Home Sales and Only Modestly Lower Mortgage Rates Following an average expectation for national home price growth of 5.2 percent in 2024, a panel of over 100 housing experts forecasts home price growth to decelerate to 3.8 percent in 2025 and 3.6 percent in 2026,...
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Leni Launches Industry-First Universal Data Model for Multifamily Real Estate
Leni Launches Universal Data Model (UDM): A Groundbreaking Milestone for Multifamily Real Estate Data Integration Leni, the leading AI-powered decision-support platform for real estate, is proud to unveil its Universal Data Model (UDM)—a revolutionary innovation redefining data integration and...
Wrightwell, Formerly Vantage, Secures New Financing Round and Partners with Bain Capital and Saluda Grade to Invest Up To $300M in U.S. Housing
Wrightwell will utilize new funding to drive nationwide expansion of its full-service real estate investment and operating platform. Together with Bain Capital and Saluda Grade, the strategic partnership seeks to invest up to $300 million to expand U.S. single-family rental (SFR) and...
Evernest Acquires Property Management Division of Picket Homes
Evernest, a national, full-service real estate and property management firm, announced the acquisition of certain assets of Elara, the property management division of Picket Homes. The acquisition solidifies Evernest's position as one of the largest institutional third-party property...
Pending Home Sales Rise After Post-Election Surge in Home Tours
Pending sales posted a big year-over-year increase this week, partly because the boom in early-stage homebuying demand Redfin saw just after the election is translating to sales and partly because Redfin is comparing it to a period in 2023 that included Thanksgiving. U.S. pending home sales rose...
U.S. MORTGAGE LENDING RISES IN Q3 2024 AMID REFINANCING SURGE, BUT REMAINS BELOW HISTORIC HIGHS
Residential Lending Grows Just 2 Percent Even as Rates Keep Declining; Refinance and Home-Equity Deals Rise While Purchase Loans Decrease ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, released its third-quarter 2024 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination...
Recent Rate Run-Up Expected to Keep Existing Home Sales Near Historic Lows Through 2025
Economy Remains on Strong Footing, though Core Inflation Remains Sticky Existing home sales are now expected to rise only 4 percent next year from a 2024 pace that is on track for a nearly 30-year low, according to the November 2024 commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and...
Realtor.com® October Rental Report: Rents Fall Again, With More New Units Expected in 2025
Growing supply of multifamily housing suggests a 1.1% increase in rental stock to more than 49 million units by next fall, with the biggest increases in the South and West. Rents fell by -0.8% to $1,720 in October, marking their fifteenth consecutive month of year-over-year declines and falling...
COST OF HOME REPAIRS INCREASES BY 3.35% FROM Q3 2023 ACCORDING TO THE Q3 2024 VERISK REMODEL INDEX
Price increases continue to slow down after post-COVID surge, but have risen almost 70% in the past decade The cost of home repairs and remodeling in the third quarter of 2024 continued to increase, rising by 1.08% from the prior quarter and just over 3.35% from the third quarter of 2023 according...









