Housing market news and data for 2026: home prices, inventory, days on market, and buyer demand β plus what the latest trends mean for buyers and sellers.
Builders who started five or fewer homes last year reported a 9.1% median increase in material costs, while builders with 100 or more starts reported 1.8% β a gap that helps explain why consolidation keeps accelerating.
The fire that started Saturday near Verdi remains at zero containment, with damage assessments still pending across neighborhoods on the western edge of the Reno housing market.
The hurricane-resistant Punta Gorda community that survived Hurricane Ian without losing power will host a new Southwest Florida Resilience Accelerator launching in October, as new home sales climb nearly 30% this quarter.
BevyHouse is testing whether factory-built homes can cut Altadena’s wildfire rebuild timeline from 18 months to six, delivering a five-module house near Fair Oaks Avenue.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Arizona water officials brace for a federal rule reallocating Colorado River water, with economists warning mandated cuts could slow homebuilding in one of the nation’s fastest-growing metros.
Median listing prices fell 2.4% year over year in July as sellers priced more realistically from the start, cutting delistings and pushing contract signings to their highest level since 2022.
Massachusetts House and Senate bills tackle zoning reform through different routes — YIGBY on religious land versus statewide duplexes-by-right — after rent stabilization was knocked off the table by the courts.
Redfin data shows Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth have all tipped into buyer’s-market territory, with Houston posting the widest seller-buyer gap in the state.
San Jose’s City Council directed staff to draft rules raising Residential Neighborhood density from 8 to as many as 32 units per acre. The mayor’s memo cites the risk of losing Housing Element certification.
Single-family starts plunged, mortgage rates eased for a second week, the $876 million commission settlements survived appeal, and Real and RE/MAX cleared the way for a Monday closing.
Californians for Homeownership and the California Housing Defense Fund filed three suits Aug. 20 alleging San Diego, San Francisco and Montebello unlawfully narrowed Senate Bill 79, the state’s transit-oriented housing law.
The FTC’s antitrust trial against Zillow and Redfin opens Monday alongside the Real-RE/MAX closing, Case-Shiller and new-home sales land Tuesday, and the Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium convenes Thursday.
Single-family attached starts totaled 42,000 in the second quarter, down 9% year over year, pulling townhouse market share off its 2025 record high while staying well above historical norms.
Home discounts peak in late August across much of California, Austin and New York suburbs, and in September across Texas, Houston, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., a Redfin analysis found.
About 15,000 single-family built-for-rent units started construction in the second quarter, down from 18,000 a year earlier, with the four-quarter average off 16% as financing costs bite.
Fourteen percent of U.S. home-purchase agreements fell through in July, the highest share since November 2023, as a record-low buyer count and 51% more sellers than buyers shifted negotiating power.
A typical family needed 34% of its income to cover the mortgage on a median-priced new home in the second quarter, up from 32% in the first, as higher mortgage rates and rising costs reversed three straight quarters of improving affordability, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Cost of Housing Index.
New listings of U.S. homes rose 5.8% from a year earlier to their highest level in more than three months in the four weeks ending Aug. 16, even as pending sales slid to their lowest level since March, according to Redfin.
Hovnanian Enterprises reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $705.7 million, down 12% from a year earlier, and a net loss of $4.5 million, as thinner margins and a cooler market weighed on the national homebuilder.
California voters will decide in November whether the state should borrow $11.25 billion to attack its affordable housing shortage, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation putting the measure on the ballot as Proposition 1. The bond, created through Senate Bill 417 and formally titled the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, would be … Read more
Toll Brothers shares climbed after the luxury homebuilder posted fiscal third-quarter results that topped Wall Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines, even as profit and deliveries fell from a year earlier in what the company’s new chief executive called “a challenging market.” The Horsham, Pennsylvania-based builder reported diluted earnings per share of … Read more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Aug. 5 released its first nationwide analysis of homeowners insurance market trends, and the numbers confirm what agents and buyers in wildfire- and storm-prone states have been reporting for years: coverage is getting more expensive and harder to keep, at a pace that is now reshaping the cost … Read more
San Francisco home prices have hit a median of $1.7 million as AI industry wealth drives bidding wars, with one in three Bay Area sales now all-cash, per a new CNN report.
Housing starts fell 12.4% from June as single-family construction dropped to a 15-month low, even as building permits rose, new Census Bureau data shows.
NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell 2.3% in July to its lowest level since January, as the summer’s mortgage-rate spike pulled back contract signings in every U.S. region.
Cash buyers made up just 3.5% of new-home purchases in the second quarter, the smallest share since the 2007 housing bust, as FHA-backed sales hit a five-year high, NAHB finds.
National home prices were nearly flat month over month in July even as annual growth hit a one-year high, with San Francisco and West Palm Beach leading gains and Texas metros leading declines, Redfin’s home price index shows.
HUD spent more than $460 billion on 18 housing programs from 2015 to 2024, but the gap between home prices and incomes narrowed by a statistically insignificant 2.75%, a new Open The Books analysis finds.
Los Angeles County built a record 10,230 accessory dwelling units in 2025, more than six times 2018’s total, as new state laws stripped away local zoning barriers, a USC Lusk Center report finds.
California home sales fell 6% in July as the statewide median price dropped below $900,000 for the first time in four months, with Southern California and San Francisco Bay Area prices moving in opposite directions, C.A.R. reports.
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