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Jason Mikkelsen
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Posts from August 17th, 2023

2020 Outlook: Real Estate Market Forecast

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In today's housing market, there are two main affordability challenges impacting buyers: mortgage rates that are higher than they've been the past couple of years, and rising home prices caused by low inventory. To overcome those challenges, many people are working with their agents to find less expensive homes. And with newly built homes making up a historically large percentage of the total available inventory today, that search often includes brand new homes.

People Are Spending Less on Newly Built Homes

The graph below uses the latest information from the Census to show, in June, more of the newly built ho...

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