Tightening Supply Lifts Market Momentum Canadian home resale activity notched another gain in October 2025, signaling steady — if cautious — renewal in demand across the country’s housing markets. National MLS home sales rose 0.9% month-over-month, marking the sixth increase in seven months and underscoring a gradual rebound that began in the spring. The pickup…
Global prime residential prices rose 2.5% over the 12 months ending September 2025, marking a continuation of a two-year slowdown in luxury housing growth, according to Knight Frank. The deceleration reflects broader macroeconomic pressures, including elevated interest rates and a slowdown in the pace of rate cuts. In September 2024, 43% of 37 sampled central…
The U.S. housing market is poised to improve only gradually next year as mortgage rates edge lower, incomes rise and more inventory comes to market, according to Realtor.com’s newly released 2026 Housing Forecast. But the platform cautions that the recovery remains fragile, with sales stuck well below normal levels and economic and political risks still…
Number of homes pulled off the market rose to a historic high in September Nearly 85,000 U.S. homeowners withdrew their properties from the market in September–up 28% from a year earlier and the highest level for the month since 2017 — according to a nationwide analysis of historical listing data compiled by Redfin. The firm…
California’s housing market posted a modest rebound in October 2025, with home sales rising from both the previous month and a year ago, according to the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.). The increase pushed the statewide pace of single-family home transactions to its highest level since February 2025, highlighting ongoing resilience in the face of…
Uneven Recovery Across Multiple Regions The U.S. housing market showed further signs of sluggish momentum in June 2025, as contract signings for home purchases dipped for the second consecutive month, underscoring persistent affordability challenges and buyer hesitation in many parts of the country. Pending home sales — a forward-looking indicator of housing activity based on…
The median price of homes destroyed by wildfire was $3.7 million Wildfires that ravaged Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Los Angeles areas for 3 weeks last January scorched an estimated $51.7 billion in residential real estate, marking one of the most financially devastating wildfire events in U.S. urban history, according to a new analysis by Redfin.…
Palm Beach County’s housing market softened in June, as total home sales fell 6% year-over-year, underscoring ongoing challenges in condo financing and shifting buyer-seller dynamics, according to new data released by the Miami Association of Realtors. Total transactions dipped to 2,008 from 2,137 in June 2024, driven by declines across both single-family and condominium sectors.…
World Property Ventures, a Miami-based real estate technology and digital finance firm, has begun development this week on REAL ESTATE PREDICTIONS (REP), a groundbreaking decentralized events contract exchange slated to launch in 2026. Positioned as a first-of-its-kind federally regulated platform, REP will enable global users to bet on — or hedge against — future outcomes…
Mortgage Rates Hold Steady in Late July Says Freddie Mac The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage in the United States held nearly flat this week, reflecting ongoing stability in borrowing costs amid a broadly resilient macroeconomic environment. According to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released July 24, 2025, the benchmark 30-year…