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Single Women Defying Housing Market Trends

Appraisal Buzz

Homeownership as a Path to Wealth Owning a home provides significant financial advantages, including equity gains and appreciation in home values. A Growing Market Force With increasing education levels, rising incomes, and financial discipline, single women are proving to be a resilient and growing force in the housing market.

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U.S. Home Values Trend Below Historical Averages

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National Home Price NSA Index, which accounts for all nine U.S. Single-Family Home Values Climb YoY Following a 3.6% National Home Price NSA Index, which includes all nine U.S. Regional variation in the housing market means that buyers across the country face vastly different market conditions, Jones added.

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Zillow, Fannie Mae diverge on 2025 housing market predictions

Housing Wire

Home values are forecast to tick up 2.2% Zillow also reported that, after a tumultuous five years, many measures of the housing market are trending closer to historic norms. Fannie Mae , on the other hand, suggests that its unlikely that the 2025 housing market will deviate from its current norms.

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Which Housing Markets Have Been the Most Vulnerable?

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ATTOM has released its latest Special Housing Market Impact Risk Report , a study examining county-level housing markets around the U.S. that are more or less vulnerable to declines, based on home affordability, equity, and other measures in the third quarter of 2024. home value currently stands at $359,099, up 2.6%

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Housing Market Predictions for 2025

Appraisal Buzz

If youre thinking about buying or selling a house and wondering about the housing market, youre not the only one. The real estate market has seen a lot of unusual trends in the past couple of years, so it makes sense that youd want the latest market update before you make any major decisions! Is It a Buyers Market?

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Skyrocketing home values driving higher property taxes

Housing Wire

Miami became one of the hottest destinations in the country after the COVID-19 pandemic began, and homeowners have reaped the benefit in the form of ballooning home equity. But homeowners in the area are also facing a serious unintended consequence of that skyrocketing property taxes. since 2019, and theyve jumped 56.8%

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Opportunity Zone Housing Markets Keeping Pace With Nationwide Price Gains

Appraisal Buzz

In over half of the Opportunity Zones examined, median prices rose by more than 10 percent a year as the country’s protracted housing market bubble persisted. Regardless matter whether the housing market has experienced a sharp upturn, a slight improvement, or a slight decline, that pattern has persisted.