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Should You Buy Now or Wait? A Decision Tree for 2025

In 2025, deciding whether to buy a home or wait involves balancing current affordability with potential future gains or losses, given elevated mortgage rates (around 6.6%), projected home price growth (2.2%), and limited inventory. This guide offers a decision tree focusing on personal financial readiness, down payment ability, local market conditions, length of stay, and avoiding market timing.

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How Backyard Homes Are Transforming the Golden State

Editors Pick, Housing Market

When Maria Sanchez decided to add a small home behind her craftsman bungalow in Los Angeles’s Highland Park neighborhood, she discovered she was part of a revolution sweeping across California. Thanks to recent state laws making it easier to build

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What’s Behind the 2025 Construction Slowdown

Economy, Housing Market

In May 2025, U.S. housing starts dropped to a five-year low, reflecting waning builder confidence amid softening demand and elevated construction costs. Ongoing labor shortages, high interest rates, and tariff uncertainties continue to challenge the delivery of low-cost housing nationwide.

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Q2 2025 VeroFORECAST signals further slowdown in the housing market

Housing Market, Market Forecasts

Veros’s Q2 2025 VeroFORECAST℠ projects 2.2% nationwide home price appreciation, indicating a stalled U.S. housing market where high mortgage rates and affordability challenges persist. This leads to varied regional performance, with some affordable metros strengthening while Florida and Texas markets show weakness

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Fed Maintains a “Wait-And-See” Approach

Economy, Housing Market

In May 2025, the Federal Reserve opted to keep interest rates unchanged, highlighting heightened economic uncertainty and increased risks to both inflation and employment, particularly in light of ongoing tariff policies.

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Spring Housing 2025: A Market at a Crossroads – More Homes, Hesitant Buyers

Housing Market, Local Markets

The Spring 2025 US housing market presents a complex picture of increasing inventory meeting subdued buyer demand, as rising mortgage rates, driven by economic uncertainties like tariff concerns, and declining consumer sentiment offset the benefit of more homes for sale.

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Beyond the Coasts: Midwest Markets Gain Investor Attention

Editors Pick, Housing Market, Local Markets

Coastal cities are not the only locations worth watching in 2025. With affordability, growth, and resilience on their side, Midwest real estate markets like Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland are becoming smart plays for investors looking for stability and long-term gains.

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Slowest March for Existing Home Sales Since 2009: A Spring Warning?

Editors Pick, Housing Market

March existing home sales plummeted to their slowest pace since 2009 due to high rates, rising prices, and economic uncertainty, casting doubt on the spring housing market’s strength.

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Concrete Jungles to Cozy Homes: Office Conversions Reshaping Urban Living

Editors Pick, Housing Market

Empty office buildings are being reimagined as housing, changing skylines and easing shortages. With cities incentivizing conversions and renters craving urban living, this trend offers promise—and complexity. Can it help solve the affordability crisis?

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The Lackluster Spring Housing Season of 2025

Economy, Editors Pick, Housing Market

The Spring 2025 housing market is underperforming expectations, failing to bloom due to persistent affordability challenges stemming from elevated mortgage rates and rising home prices, compounded by economic uncertainty that is keeping potential buyers on the sidelines despite an increase in available inventory.

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Should You Buy Now or Wait? A Decision Tree for 2025

How Backyard Homes Are Transforming the Golden State

What’s Behind the 2025 Construction Slowdown

Q2 2025 VeroFORECAST signals further slowdown in the housing market

Fed Maintains a “Wait-And-See” Approach

Spring Housing 2025: A Market at a Crossroads – More Homes, Hesitant Buyers

Beyond the Coasts: Midwest Markets Gain Investor Attention

Slowest March for Existing Home Sales Since 2009: A Spring Warning?

Concrete Jungles to Cozy Homes: Office Conversions Reshaping Urban Living

The Lackluster Spring Housing Season of 2025

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