Privately owned housing starts in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,246,000, 4.6% below the revised September estimate of 1,306,000 and 7.8% below the October 2024 rate of 1,352,000, according to a Jan. 9 report from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The starts fell to…
Don’t rely on national housing market headlines to understand your local market; that’s the key takeaway from Realtor.com®’s December monthly housing report, which reveals how dramatically individual metros diverged from broader trends throughout 2025. The report introduces a new framework for understanding these local differences: “benchmarkets” versus outliers. Benchmarkets are metros whose inventory and price…
Just over a year after launching its climate risk feature, Zillow has quietly removed its Climate Risk Scores directly from the platform’s listings, and now instead directs users to First Street’s website—which Zillow called “the standard for climate risk financial modeling”—where they can individually access risk assessments for flood, wildfire, wind, heat and air quality…