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Housing prices, inventory levels, demand shifts, regional market differences, and the data behind where the housing market is heading.
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Silver hit $121 an ounce this year, near a record — AI data centers and solar panels are devouring more than miners can dig out of the ground
When silver futures on the COMEX settled above $121 an ounce in the opening weeks of 2026, the price had more than doubled in barely...
For the first time in 2026, more homes are hitting the market than selling — handing buyers the most negotiating power they’ve had since the pandemic
For most of the past five years, house hunting in America felt like showing up to an auction with nothing but a bidder number and...
Zillow cut its 2026 home-price forecast from 4-5% growth to flat — JPMorgan and NAR are following, and 36% of sellers are already cutting list prices
A year ago, Zillow’s economists were telling the housing market to brace for another 4% to 5% jump in home prices. That projection is dead....
Sellers outnumber buyers by 46.5% in April’s housing market — the gap narrowed for a fourth straight month, but it’s still firmly a buyer’s market
The imbalance between sellers and buyers in the U.S. housing market shrank for a fourth consecutive month in April, but at 46.5%, the gap remains...
Existing home sales barely rose 0.2% in April — but inventory jumped 5.8% to 1.47 million homes, the most buyer leverage since the pandemic
Buyers walking into open houses this spring are encountering something that hasn’t existed since before the pandemic: breathing room. Existing home sales crept up just...
Builders slashed new home prices 6.2% in a year to $387,400 — because 481,000 unsold homes are sitting on the market
The sticker price on a brand-new American home just dropped to a level that would have seemed impossible during the pandemic housing frenzy. According to...
Builders slashed new home prices 6.2% in a year to $387,400 — because 481,000 unsold homes are sitting on the market
One year ago, signing a contract on a newly built home in the United States meant agreeing to a median price of $412,900. By March...
Builders slashed new home prices 6.2% in a single year — the median dropped to $387,400, the lowest since 2021 — because 481,000 unsold homes are sitting on the market
The sticker price on a brand-new American home now starts with a three for the first time in five years. In March 2026, the median...
New home prices just dropped to $387,400 — the lowest since July 2021 — because builders are slashing prices faster than rates are climbing
A year ago, a buyer shopping for a brand-new house in the United States would have faced a median price tag north of $400,000 and...
Home prices dropped in 28 of America’s 53 largest metros — and 7 of the 10 fastest-falling markets are in Florida
Cape Coral. North Port. Tampa. Palm Bay. Lakeland. Deltona. Jacksonville. Seven Florida metropolitan areas now rank among the ten fastest-falling housing markets in the country,...
Michael Burry says the AI market “feels like the last months of the 1999-2000 bubble” — the top 10 Nasdaq stocks gained 784% in 12 months
Michael Burry built his reputation on a single, spectacular bet: shorting the U.S. housing market before the 2008 collapse, a trade that earned his small...
Florida home prices dropped 5.1% this year — the worst-hit city, Cape Coral, fell 9% as insurance costs and a flood of inventory crushed the Sun Belt boom
In May 2026, a three-bedroom stucco house on a canal in Cape Coral, Florida, listed at $380,000, sits unsold after weeks on the market. A...
Home prices dropped in 39 of the 129 largest U.S. cities this year — and 4 of the 10 fastest-falling markets are in Florida
Three years ago, Cape Coral, Florida, was the kind of market where houses sold before the sign hit the yard. Buyers from New York, New...
Florida home prices dropped 9% in Cape Coral — while Rust Belt cities barely have enough houses to sell
A three-bedroom ranch in Cape Coral, Florida, that would have drawn a dozen offers over a single weekend in 2022 now sits on the market...
44% of used EVs sold for under $25,000 in March — making a secondhand electric cheaper than the average used gas car for the first time
A used Chevy Bolt EUV for $18,500. A three-year-old Nissan Leaf for $14,900. A 2022 Tesla Model 3 listed just under $25,000. Prices like these...
Florida home prices are down 5.1% and Texas is down 2.4% — while Rust Belt cities are surging in the weirdest housing market split in a generation
Two years ago, a three-bedroom ranch in Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood might have drawn a dozen offers and sold above $400,000. Today, similar homes in...
The Buffett Indicator just hit 217% of GDP — higher than the dot-com peak of 150% — and Warren Buffett has said anything above 90% is overheated
Warren Buffett spent the better part of two years doing something that made Wall Street uncomfortable: selling. By the end of the first quarter of...
Iran war accelerates clean-energy buying, boosting China’s exporters
Iran war accelerates clean-energy buying, boosting China’s exporters In early March 2026, as naval skirmishes near the Strait of Hormuz sent tanker insurance premiums to...
Sun Belt home prices are collapsing while Rust Belt prices soar — the 2026 housing market nobody predicted
For years, home prices in the Sun Belt region (consisting of southern states, such as Texas, Louisiana, and Florida) have risen relative to home prices...
Home price growth slows to 1.1% nationally — slowest since 2012; Sun Belt crashes while Rust Belt surges
A homeowner in Cape Coral, Florida who closed on a house in 2022 has likely lost a significant chunk of equity since then. Based on...