2025

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New listings of U.S. homes for sale fell 1.7% year-over-year in the four weeks ending December 7, 2025, marking the largest decline in more than two years, according to Redfin. The slowdown reflects a combination of seasonal trends and muted buyer interest. Pending home sales dropped 4.1% from a year earlier, the steepest decline in ten months, while the typical home under contract now takes 51 days to...

The housing market showed faint signs of near-term affordability improvement in late 2025, but it remains dramatically worse than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from Oxford Economics. In the third quarter, a household needed to earn $110,100 a year to afford to own a single-family home, including taxes and insurance. That was about 2.3% lower than the peak in early 2025...

Nonprofit organizations say the Trump administration has dramatically scaled back fair lending oversight — and they’re stepping in to fill the void.In its latest move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) this week announced the rescission of disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations, while other parts of the federal government have reduced enforcement of fair lending issues. But according...

Real estate platform PLACE is welcoming three new executives. On Monday, the firm announced the additions of Nikki Miller, Jamie Jatzlau and Claire Dunham to its leadership team.  Miller, who will serve as PLACE’s new vice president of growth, began her real estate industry career in 2014 as a sales associate at the Souferian Group, before going on to form the Nikki Miller Team at Keller Williams....

FirstHome IQ says that millennials and Generation Z face significant gaps in financial knowledge and trust as they approach homebuying age, according to the group’s newly released 2025 Impact Report. The report outlines widespread uncertainty among younger homebuyers — noting that most never received formal financial literacy education. According to the findings, 93% of millennials and Gen Z...

Pathway Lending, a Nashville-based Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), announced on Thursday the launch of the Pathway Housing Fund with $30 million in committed capital to acquire and preserve Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) in Tennessee communities at risk of gentrification. “Over the past two decades, Tennessee’s housing crisis has grown more personal for thousands...

Los Angeles occasionally produces a real estate story that feels like a plot twist, and the rediscovery of the Jules Salkin Residence is one of them. Designed in 1948 by John Lautner, one of California’s most distinctive architectural voices, the home was considered “lost” for decades — known only through an archival model photographed and stored at the Getty. That changed in 2014, when the...

Miami Beach has no shortage of celebrity-adjacent real estate, but this newly listed Lakeview estate comes with a twist straight from the music world. The property belongs to Steven Walbroehl, per our sources, co-founder and CTO of Halborn and a creative force who has produced and written for artists including Britney Spears and Steve Aoki. And yes — the house comes with a full-blown professional...

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