Housing

Question of the Day for teachers and students: What is the typical age of a first-time homebuyer in the U.S.? Daily discussion questions from NGPF, the leading nonprofit provider of free personal finance curriculum.

Track financial anxiety, food insecurity, housing stress, and affordability across all 50 US states in real-time.

ATTOM Year-End 2025 U.S. Home Sales Report shows prices hit $360K, investor share at 6.6%, and profit margins fell.

The average seller at the end of 2025 had owned their home for nearly nine years.

A closer look at competing plans for expanding housing and reining in costs.

Why the System Can’t Handle Falling Prices

Spain’s Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez began 2026 by announcing new measures to combat the country’s housing crisis. Speaking on January 12 at the

The housing proposal will let Americans use their 401(k)s for down payments, a Trump economic adviser said.

"I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes," Trump said.

President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices.

The market’s rebalancing, as sellers delist at a record pace....

The math is clear: you might pay a little less per month, but you won’t make a serious dent in your debt for years....

Better now, worse later?

While New York City is on the cusp of electing a mayor who adores the thoroughly discredited policy of rent control, another American city is poised to blaze

That’s the oldest point on record and 10 years higher than it was as recently as 2010....

This map shows how many gold bars it takes to buy a median-priced house in each U.S. state, in case you ever wondered.

Sales of newly built homes jumped far more than expected in August, even though mortgage rates didn't come down until September.

A new tax program is leading some developers to change their construction plans.

This housing market is frozen, weird, and a nightmare for homebuilders....

More people are asking to spend the night before making an offer. ‘You should try it before you buy it.’

In many large U.S. cities, the typical household can afford to rent only a space smaller than a studio apartment.

The two companies have been under government conservatorship since 2008.

With mortgage rates near 7%, buyers are holding back and sellers are staying put — leaving the housing market frozen....

High interest rates and prices are deterring individual buyers, leaving an opening for firms to snap up single-family properties.

Depending where you live, it could be a good time to buy a home

Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data.

At no other point on record have sellers outnumbered buyers this much. Home prices will likely fall as a result.

Homeowners eager to sell may have to wait a while before a buyer comes along. As of April, the U.S. housing market had nearly 34% more sellers than buyers shopping for a home, according to an analysis by Redfin.

It’s complicated.

This visualization maps the annual income required to buy a typical three-bedroom home in every U.S. state.