Kate Wood
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 13 Aug
Kate Wood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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just launched this new stat.
Basically, every month, the NerdWallet Home Buying Climate Index gives the national market a score and a sort of weather forecast comparison based on how favorable or not favorable conditions are for buyers.
So we look at five major data points: mortgage rates, no surprise.
home prices, incomes, unemployment, and new construction.
So we put all of these together to kind of give you a snapshot of the housing climate at the moment.
And then we can also take a look historically.
It was beautiful, right?
It was sunny.
Uh, it was gorgeous, right?
Just perfect.
Get outside weather.
March 2021 had the best home buying climate index in over 30 years of data.
So the number is out of a hundred.
March 2021, it was at 89.5, right?
So, as Abby mentioned, that was when we were kind of coming to the end of this brief window of mortgage rates hitting historic.
lows.
But, you know, wider context, at that time, unemployment was falling.
We might remember personal incomes were getting a boost.
We were getting those pandemic stimulus checks.
And also, you know, builders were starting to get moving again and pull more permits.
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