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Luxury Market Momentum: Why the Top End of U.S. Housing Refuses to Slow Down

There’s a quiet irony in watching the luxury real estate segment climb while the broader U.S. housing market still feels stuck in a slow-moving freeze. According to newly released data from Redfin, median sales prices for luxury homes reached $1.28 million in the August–October 2025 period, up 5.5% year over year—an all-time high for October. By contrast, non-luxury homes rose … [Read more...] about Luxury Market Momentum: Why the Top End of U.S. Housing Refuses to Slow Down

Tidalwave Raises $22M to Reshape Mortgage Processing with Agentic AI

There’s something odd about the mortgage industry: decades of talk about “digitization,” yet anyone who has ever endured the process knows the truth — it’s still a slow-moving paper labyrinth where every step depends on someone emailing someone else to confirm something that should’ve been automatic years ago. So when Tidalwave announced a fresh $22 million Series A round, led … [Read more...] about Tidalwave Raises $22M to Reshape Mortgage Processing with Agentic AI

U.S. Housing Market Turns Sharply in Favor of Buyers, But Affordability Remains a Wall

The U.S. housing market feels strangely upside-down right now. On paper, it’s the strongest buyer’s market in more than a decade—yet millions of would-be buyers are sitting on the sidelines because they simply can’t afford to join the game. According to a new Redfin analysis, October saw an estimated 36.8% more home sellers than buyers across the country, which translates to … [Read more...] about U.S. Housing Market Turns Sharply in Favor of Buyers, But Affordability Remains a Wall

Unfulfilled Dreams: The Aftermath of China’s Stalled Real Estate Developments

China's Unfinished Real Estate Crisis: The Ripple Effect on Banking, Economy, and Politics China's once thriving real estate market has hit a major snag with hundreds of thousands of buyers left in the lurch as developers stop building homes that have already been paid for. It's a common practice in China for around 90% of new homes to be sold before construction has even … [Read more...] about Unfulfilled Dreams: The Aftermath of China’s Stalled Real Estate Developments

The global property market is facing a deepening debt crisis as the era of easy money comes to an end

The global property market is facing a deepening debt crisis as the era of easy money comes to an end. The crisis is being driven by a combination of factors, including a slowdown in global economic growth, rising interest rates, and increasing levels of debt. One of the main drivers of the property market debt crisis is the slowdown in global economic growth. As economies … [Read more...] about The global property market is facing a deepening debt crisis as the era of easy money comes to an end

RealPage® Releases 2022 Market-Rate Apartment Affordability Report

Data From Millions of Apartment Leases Shows Renters Spend 23% of Income on Rent RICHARDSON, Texas, July 18, 2022 - RealPage, a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, released today its 2022 Market-Rate Apartment Affordability Report during its annual RealWorld conference in Las Vegas. The report shows that market-rate apartment … [Read more...] about RealPage® Releases 2022 Market-Rate Apartment Affordability Report

Luxury-Home Sales Sink 18%, the Biggest Decline Since the Start of the Pandemic

Redfin analysis finds the luxury-housing market is cooling down amid a slumping stock market, rising mortgage rates and economic uncertainty SEATTLE, June 10, 2022 - (NASDAQ: RDFN) — Sales of luxury U.S. homes fell 17.8% year over year during the three months ending April 30, the largest drop since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic sent shockwaves through the housing … [Read more...] about Luxury-Home Sales Sink 18%, the Biggest Decline Since the Start of the Pandemic

High Home Prices

"There are several potential factors contributing to the rise in home prices, both over the past decade and since the start of the pandemic. But at the heart of the rise in home prices is the interaction between supply and demand: There are more people who want to buy homes than there are homes for sale. As a result, prices have increased. The upward trend in home prices … [Read more...] about High Home Prices