Housing Market

The More Homes on the Market Act would raise the capital gains exclusion on home sales to $500,000/$1 million, up from limits set in 1997. Two bipartisan bills are now in committee with a combined 174 cosponsors.

A new Consumer Federation of America and Weiss Ratings analysis, highlighted by Realtor.com, finds home insurers collectively earn $8.8 million a day in extra investment income for every day a claim payment is delayed — a $61.6 million windfall over a week.

New Realtor.com research finds data centers have spread into more rural, lower-income communities and now sit near 1.5% of home sales nationwide, but the company’s economists found no statistically significant hit to nearby home prices in the two years after a center opens.

Wage growth for residential building workers slowed to 1.0% in June, with inflation-adjusted pay down 2.4% year over year, as softer construction activity weighs on labor demand, NAHB finds.

Peabody, Mass., a Boston-area suburb, ranked No. 1 on Realtor.com’s 2026 Hottest ZIP Codes report, with listings drawing four times the national average traffic and selling in just 20 days.

California, Texas and Florida account for more than a fifth of U.S. remodeling spending, NAHB’s latest state-level data shows, even as national remodeling activity declined for a third straight quarter.

Redfin data shows pending home sales dropped 3.7% in a week, the steepest decline since 2022, as mortgage rates hit nearly a year-high and sellers offer more concessions.

Realtor.com identifies Milwaukee, Detroit and other older industrial cities as best positioned to benefit from a new law tying CDBG grants to local homebuilding.

Dream Finders Homes has agreed to acquire Beazer Homes in an all-cash deal worth about $2.2 billion, the companies announced Aug. 6, ending a monthslong pursuit that started as a hostile bid and closes as a unanimously approved merger creating the nation’s sixth-largest listed homebuilder. Under the agreement, Beazer shareholders will receive $33.50 in cash … Read more

A Leon County judge ruled Florida’s property tax amendment ballot language was biased, ordering a rewrite of phrases like the ‘Save Our Homes’ title before the measure appears on the November ballot.

Real estate investor confidence fell to its lowest level on record this summer, according to the Summer 2026 RCN Capital/CJ Patrick Company Investor Sentiment Index, published Aug. 5. The index dropped to 84, the lowest score in the survey’s 12-quarter history and the second consecutive quarter below 90. The reading is down three points from … Read more

Florida’s share of the nation’s homeowners insurance lawsuits has nearly been cut in half since the state overhauled its property insurance laws, according to state regulatory data reported by Florida Realtors on Aug. 5. Florida’s portion of national homeowners insurance litigation fell from roughly 79% in 2020 to about 41% in 2025, even though the … Read more

Buyers need to earn $109,796 to afford the typical U.S. home, Redfin reports, down just 0.5% from a year-ago record as mortgage rates and prices stabilize.

LGI Homes posted second-quarter 2026 revenue of $516.0 million and 1,440 home closings, and raised its full-year guidance on average sales price and gross margin for the second straight quarter.

BLS JOLTS data show construction job openings rose to 305,000 in June, up 36% from a year ago, as nonresidential and data center projects compete harder for skilled labor than a slowing housing sector.

A new NAR report finds 6.9 million U.S. homes are now valued at $1 million or more, up from 2% two decades ago, as sellers increasingly price listings at $999,999 to dodge mansion taxes.

Gov. Greg Abbott proposed withholding sales tax revenue from Texas cities that impose costly add-on requirements, like oversized pools or extra height limits, to stall housing development.

Home prices rose year-over-year in 80% of U.S. metros this spring, up from 71% in Q1, as the national median price climbed to $434,900, NAR’s latest quarterly report finds.

New construction is giving homebuyers more negotiating leverage across the South, including Florida, even as many sellers hold out for full asking price, a HomeServices of America report finds.

NAHB says AI data center developers are paying 30 to 50 times what homebuilders can afford for land in Northern Virginia and beyond, removing housing sites from the pipeline entirely.

HOA-related foreclosures climbed to 6,376 properties in the first quarter, up nearly 40% in two years, as insurance costs and depleted reserves push cash-strapped associations to crack down on delinquent owners.

Oregon Housing and Community Services is offering fixed-rate permanent mortgages to affordable housing developers for the first time in nearly two decades, filling a financing gap between construction and long-term debt.

The share of U.S. listings with a price cut rose to 20% in July from 18.8% in June, Realtor.com reports, as mortgage rates near a one-year high stalled the summer selling season.

The share of home builders reporting increased local M&A activity grew from 14% to 21% over the past year, and those approached about being acquired doubled to 18%, an NAHB survey analysis finds.