Nicole Friedman
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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WSJ What’s News · The Housing Market Slumped This Spring. Where Does It Go From Here? · 23 Jun 2026
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The spring market is really crucial for the rest of the year.
A lot of people want to move in the spring or move over the summer.
And so if they miss that opportunity, they might delay it a whole year.
And so some of the demand that didn't show up this spring won't necessarily come later in the year.
We might have to wait until 2027.
If conditions get better in the fall or even the winter, we see a decline in mortgage rates or a decline in home prices, an increase in inventory.
There are definitely a lot of buyers that would jump on that, but it wouldn't be as big of a wave as we would have seen this spring if the conditions had been better.
The components of affordability are incomes, home prices, and mortgage rates.
And so mortgage rates coming down would make a huge difference.
Also, home prices, which are still on a national basis ticking higher, you know, that could make the difference for some buyers.
We are seeing income growth.
And so slowly people's incomes are kind of over the years going to catch up with the change in housing affordability.
But that's a very slow process.
That's not something that is necessarily going to happen this year.
Yeah, there are lots of technologies that people are experimenting with, are using on small scale.
I think we have yet to see any new emerging technology really kind of catch on in terms of making a huge change to the industry and being widely adopted.
But that's not to say that that couldn't happen.
in the coming years.
I think it's just still an era of experimentation and figuring out how to apply these technologies.
And the truth is a lot of large builders are super efficient already.
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