On prices, rent, and mortgage:
- Using Income Changes to Forecast Home Prices by County – Home Economics
- Expert Panel Expects Moderating Home Price Growth through 2026 – Fannie Mae
- Mortgage Rates Ease to 6.84% – Realtor.com
- Buyer-Friendly Housing Market Gets a Boost With a Dip in Mortgage Rates – Realtor.com
- Housing Isn’t Expensive for Everyone. Do you have a ZIRP-era mortgage or not? – Bloomberg
- Congress Considers a Crackdown on Those Spammy Calls From Mortgage Lenders. Legislation would curb ‘trigger leads,’ whereby credit bureaus sell your mortgage application information to competing lenders – Wall Street Journal
- Trump has a plan to remake the housing-finance system. It’s baffling to many lawmakers and experts. The question of what to do with Fannie and Freddie, the two dominant mortgage financiers, has bedeviled policymakers for decades. – Politico
On sales, permits, starts, and supply:
- More Home Listings Are Paving the Way to a Buyer-Friendly Market – Realtor.com
- 32 housing markets where tight inventory still favors sellers. Among the nation’s 200 largest metro area housing markets, 32 markets at the end of May 2025 still had at least 50% less active inventory than in May 2019. – Fast Company
- New Real-Estate Math: Half a Million More Sellers Than Buyers. New listings haven’t been enough to jolt the housing market out of its slumber – Wall Street Journal
- Permit Activity Weakens in April 2025 – NAHB
- 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in May – Calculated Risk
- Builder Sentiment at Third Lowest Reading Since 2012 – NAHB
- Housing Market Index and Single Family Starts – Calculated Risk
- Housing Starts Decreased to 1.256 million Annual Rate in May – Calculated Risk
- Sharp Drop in Multifamily Production Brings Overall Housing Starts Down – NAHB
- US single-family housing starts rise in May; permits slump – Reuters
- US housing construction falls to 5-year low as tariffs weigh on sector. Signs of property market weakness come hours ahead of Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates – FT
- Single-Family Home Construction Stays Muted in May as Builders Grapple With Rates and Tariffs – Realtor.com
- There Are Nearly 15 Million Vacant Homes in America—Here’s Where Most of Them Are – Realtor.com
- Buyer-Friendly Housing Market Grows as Home Prices Hold Steady – Realtor.com
- Housing’s Woes Are a Leading Indicator – Wall Street Journal
- Housing Starts Weaken Amid Gloomy Builder Sentiment – Wall Street Journal
- The housing market slump is getting worse – Axios
On other developments:
- Household Real Estate Asset Value Falls to Start the Year – NAHB
- Here’s how Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ would impact housing – CNN
- Why did those apartments for the poor cost D.C. more than $1 million each? – Washington Post
- The affordability gap: Is home ownership still within reach in today’s economy? – JP Morgan Chase
- Home Flipping Profits Drop in First Quarter – ATTOM
- The 10 states where homeownership will most be out of reach in 5 years. These 10 states are projected to have the largest gaps between income and homeowners in five years – Quartz
- Can You Guess the Hidden Costs of Homeownership? – New York Times