Nicole Friedman
speaker
266 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
Nicole Friedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.
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So mortgage rates in recent months have been lower than they were earlier in the year, and that is bringing some buyers into the market.
It's a slightly more affordable time to buy a home.
And so there is some optimism that if rates continue to decline, that that could lead to an increase in home buying activity in 2026.
But overall, home sales are still really low.
This year is still likely to be
at or near the lowest level since the mid-90s for existing home sales.
So even with this slight uptick in momentum, it's from a really low base, and we're not seeing any huge increase in home buying activity just yet.
I think the general experience for home buyers is that it's stressful.
That's our colleague, Nicole Friedman.
She covers real estate.
It's very expensive to buy a home, especially these days.
Home prices are high.
Mortgage rates are high.
And in a lot of parts of the country, there are still not enough homes to choose from.
The inventory is lower than it was before the pandemic.
And so they're really kind of glued to the listing sites, you know, waiting for a new home to pop up, hoping that this could be the one.
I think for a lot of buyers, that's where they start the process.
If they're thinking about buying a home, even just casually like, oh, is this the year maybe we should buy?
They go to one of these portals.
They set up, you know, search alerts for their neighborhood or their budget.
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