For most of the past decade, the housing market script was simple: the Sun Belt wins, the Rust Belt loses. Florida and Texas absorbed waves of relocating buyers, no state income tax made headlines, and Midwest metros quietly got left out of the conversation. In 2026, that script has flipped in a way even seasoned
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The U.S. housing market delivered a genuinely strange headline this summer: home prices hit an all-time high at the exact moment mortgage rates climbed toward their highest level in over a year. The median existing-home price reached $440,600 in June 2026, according to the National Association of Realtors — marking the 36th consecutive month of
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After years of buyers watching home prices climb faster than their savings, 2026 has delivered something genuinely different: a national housing market that’s barely moving at all. Multiple major forecasters are now converging on a strikingly similar message — home price growth this year is landing somewhere between flat and barely positive, a dramatic slowdown
Home Prices Stall at 0%: Is This the Buyer’s Market We’ve Waited For? Read More »
If you’ve been waiting for mortgage rates to drop back to pandemic-era lows before buying a home, it’s time for an honest conversation: that’s probably not happening anytime soon. As of this week, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate sits at 6.61%, with rates hovering in the mid-6% range for much of 2026. The good
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