Tagged: property market

March 25, 2025 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global real estate market has been navigating a challenging landscape for nearly two years, but some hope / expectations of eventual recovery are beginning to emerge. According to PitchBook’s H2 2024 Global Real Estate Report, preliminary data from Q3 2024 suggests that private real… Read More

January 8, 2025 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Buffalo, New York, will be the hottest major property / real estate market in 2025, according to a new analysis by Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG), the first time a market has held the title in back-to-back years. Real estate firm Zillow noted in its… Read More

December 28, 2024 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a luxury vacation home, released its fourth annual Top Vacation Home Markets Report, identifying the “leading” luxury vacation home markets for 2024. The report reveals the top 20 counties across the United… Read More

December 27, 2024 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group has shared the Halifax UK housing / property market review and outlook for real estate in 2025. Here are the key takeaways from the extensive research report on the United Kingdom‘s property market: UK housing market beat expectations in 2024, with recovery… Read More

December 22, 2024 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Erratic and dramatic mortgage rate movements that heavily influenced the housing market in 2024 are destined to “play a major role” in the coming year, according to real estate firm Zillow‘s (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) latest market report. Zillow Chief Economist Skylar Olsen said: “There’s… Read More

October 23, 2024 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Almost half of all US renter households are being “burdened” by excessive rent costs, with Gen Z renters shouldering the “heaviest load,” a new analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) by real estate firm Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) and… Read More

July 1, 2024 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To comfortably afford a typical U.S. home, a home buyer making the median income needs to put down nearly $127,750, or 35.4%, a Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) analysis of the real estate market shows. Five years ago, when mortgage rates were “hovering just above… Read More

May 20, 2024 @ 9:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Texas and Florida metros dominate the best places for buyers in Zillow‘s latest real estate market heat index, securing seven of the top 10 spots. But most of the country’s 50 largest metros — and the U.S. at large — “favor sellers,” according to the… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The U.S. real estate market has a record-high 550 “million-dollar” cities — cities where the typical home is worth $1 million or more — a new Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) analysis shows. That is 59 more million-dollar cities than a year ago,  “reversing losses… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spring home sellers looking to maximize their sale price may want to wait it out and list their home for sale in the first half of June, according to an update from real estate firm Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG). A new Zillow analysis of… Read More

February 21, 2024 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, a technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a vacation home, reports more than 21% growth in co-ownership across the U.S. year-over-year in its inaugural Co-Ownership Growth Report. The report identifies the top ten counties “with the most significant annual… Read More

February 18, 2024 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Both buyers and sellers should prepare for a competitive real estate / property market season this spring. The latest real estate market report from Zillow (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) reportedly shows “that well-priced homes are being snapped up quickly, while those that linger on the… Read More

February 10, 2024 @ 4:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a luxury second home, announced significant milestones for the year 2023 with cumulative revenue in the Pacaso real estate portfolio surpassing $1 billion. In 2023, Pacaso claims that it has “grown its… Read More

January 23, 2024 @ 6:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andrew Charnley, MD, Assetz Capital, says that housing has been a popular topic of discussion, as both the Conservatives and Labour start to gear up for the next general election. Andrew Charnley from Assetz Capital notes that the UK faces many pressing social issues, but… Read More

January 8, 2024 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Buffalo, New York, will be the most active major housing market this year, according to a new analysis by Zillow (NASDAQ: Z and ZG). It may be hard to believe for some but as prices are rising elsewhere, Buffalo remains more accessible. Affordability is the… Read More

January 8, 2024 @ 9:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The property industry has reacted to the latest mortgage approval data from the Bank of England. The latest figures show that mortgage approvals for November 2023 sit “at 50,067, up from 47,888 in October.” According to an update shared with CI, this marks “a YoY… Read More

December 28, 2023 @ 7:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The most popular market among Zillow (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) surfers this year was West Chester, Pennsylvania. After the West Coast ruled in 2021 and the Midwest took the top spot last year, the Northeast dominated this year’s list. Smaller Northeast towns dominated Zillow’s “most… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 11:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Preqin, the global firm focused on alternative assets data, tools, and insights, published its Preqin Global Report 2024: Real Estate. The report shows that high interest rates will “continue to deter real estate fundraising and dealmaking in 2024, while also outlining a shift towards opportunistic… Read More

December 12, 2023 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mortgage rates falling from a 23-year high have brought some early “holiday cheer for home shoppers and sellers,” according to a recent US market update. The latest Zillow (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) market report shows monthly costs “for a new mortgage are falling, inventory is… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Casavo highlights that technology is redefining the way in which individuals and professionals interact “with the real estate market: from algorithms that project the future value of properties to virtual experiences through augmented reality.” Proptech identifies sustainability as “a crucial element  influences home buying and… Read More