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Sun Belt markets where building has boomed account for most of the markets where new construction offers the best value per square foot Newly built homes sell for a median of $205 per square foot nationally, below the $212 median for existing homes, a new Zillow analysis finds. Many of the markets with the biggest discounts for new homes — as much as 19% less — are high-supply Sun Belt markets ...

Cotality's chief economist Selma Hepp warns the 30-year fixed mortgage rates could spike to 9% if inflation reaccelerates and growing fiscal deficit drive long-term US Treasury yields up further. While not her base case, Hepp emphasized in a recent CNBC interview that such an “extreme” rate environment will severely paralyze housing activity, deepening the affordability crisis and freezing exis...

The battle between real estate listing giants Compass and Zillow heated up on two fronts recently.

Nearly 5 engaged home shoppers are competing for every listing, but affordability headwinds are weighing on sales Engaged home shoppers — Zillow users who save or share a for-sale listing — were up 21% year over year this past spring, at 4.8 shoppers per listing nationally. Buffalo, Providence and Hartford had the most engaged shoppers per listing; Houston, Miami and San Antonio had the fewest.

Zillow Senior Vice President of Engineering Toby Roberts joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss what AI is changing about buying and selling homes, from AI agents working alongside real estate agents to the company's integration with ChatGPT.

In all 50 major U.S. metros, typical rent is less than the typical monthly cost of homeownership, giving renters a financial cushion According to the Zillow Observed Rent Index, the typical U.S. rent is $1,948 a month. The typical new home buyer's monthly payment is $3,014, a difference of $1,066 a month or $12,792 a year.

With permitting at a post-pandemic low, the housing shortage at the root of today's affordability crisis could deepen Residential building permits fell 1.7% in the year ending July 2026 and are now running a record 19.4% below the pre-pandemic trend line. Detached single-family home completions dropped 2.5% in 2025 to about 817,000, the third consecutive annual decline and the lowest total sinc...

Zillow expects continued softness in the for-sale market, with newly pending sales and inventory growth both decelerating as affordability challenges push demand toward rentals Home sales fell 0.6% year over year in August, a deceleration from July's 6% annual gain, according to Zillow's August Market Report. Newly pending listings, a leading indicator of future closings, fell 2.6% year over ye...