Real Estate Updates

Real Estate Updates Homeowners Have A Fat Equity Cushion For Real-Estate Downturn US homeowners continued to build their equity positions last quarter even as the housing market cooled, and they have ample buffers to shield against a deeper downturn, according to a new study. The share of mortgage borrowers who are “equity-rich” — meaning that they owe no more than half of the property’s market value — […]
Real Estate Updates Q3 2022 Western Washington Real Estate Market Update The following analysis of select counties of the Western Washington real estate market is provided by Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner. We hope that this information may assist you with making better-informed real estate decisions. For further information about the housing market in your area, please don’t hesitate to contact your Windermere Real […]
Real Estate Updates Are We in a Housing Recession?   Hello there, I’m Windermere’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner and welcome to this month’s episode of Monday with Matthew. A little while ago, a housing analyst was being interviewed about the current state of the residential market and they suggested that the country is in a “housing recession.” Well, needless to say, this got a lot of attention from […]
Real Estate Updates MONDAY WITH MATTHEW: The Continued Decline of the Housing Market Index Hello there, I’m Windermere’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner and welcome to this month’s episode of Monday with Matthew. Today we are going to take a look at the new home market where headwinds are certainly growing. And the reason this particular subject piqued my interest was that the National Association of Home Builders just released their Housing Market Index for August, and […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 AUGUST SEATTLE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 2022 AUGUST EASTSIDE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates Monday with Matthew: The Landscape for Mortgage Rates and Inflation in 2022   Hello there, I’m Windermere’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner and welcome to this month’s episode of Monday with Matthew. You know, one of the many things I love about being an economist is that it is a remarkably humbling profession. You see, just when we start to believe that our models are close to perfection, […]
Real Estate Updates The 10 most stable housing markets in the United States, ranked The US housing market and economy at large have endured a blizzard of rising home prices and climbing mortgage rates. But take shelter from the storm with these financially sound markets. The housing market and the economy at large have taken a wild ride this year, with home prices clinging to historic highs and mortgages […]
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Real Estate Updates 2022 JULY SEATTLE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 2022 JULY EASTSIDE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates Mortgage rates see largest decline since 2008 Mortgage rates dropped for the second week in a row, notching the largest decline since December, 2008. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.30% in the week ending July 7, down from 5.70% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That is still significantly higher than this time last year when it was 2.90%. Rates rose […]
Real Estate Updates The Growing Housing Affordability Problem Hello there, I’m Windermere’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner and welcome to this month’s episode of Monday with Matthew. If you’ve listened to me at all over the past several years, you’ll know that I am pretty passionate about one subject: housing affordability. And, given the significant price growth that we’ve seen over the past decade, […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 JUNE SEATTLE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 2022 JUNE EASTSIDE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates Selling Your Home: Capital Gains Tax When you sell your home, you stand to receive an influx of cash. Though there are several costs associated with a home sale, you can likely still bank on the fact that you’ll be depositing a lump sum in the near future. But before you start planning how you’ll use the money or start looking for […]
Real Estate Updates Reasons Why It’s Still a Great Time to Buy a Home I’ve always been all-in on homeownership. Yet, for the first time in two decades since the beginning of the pandemic, I haven’t owned a home. All of which got me thinking: The National Association of Realtors (NAR) just issued a report calculating that the cost of purchasing a house in the U.S. has increased 55% year over year […]
Real Estate Updates Moving Patterns for U.S. Homeowners and Renters in 2021 Hello there. I’m Windermere Real Estate’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner and welcome to the latest episode of Monday with Matthew. Over the past few months, analysts like myself have been starting to get our hands on early numbers from the Census Bureau and, although we won’t get the bulk of the data for another several months, […]
Real Estate Updates 6 Seattle Suburbs with the Highest Price Growth in March The year-over-year median sale prices were up yet again, and the Eastside dominance continues. AH, SPRING. That joyous time when seasonal allergies start popping—and the local housing market does too. Seattle neighborhoods showed signs of the busy housing market to come, as did area rents. Meanwhile, in the suburbs, the Eastside continued its unprecedented tear […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 MAY SEATTLE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 2022 MAY EASTSIDE REAL ESTATE UPDATE