Tag Archives: Pulsenomics

As the market continues to hit record marks nearly unabated over the last few months, the topic of bubbles is being brought up around watercoolers and coffee machines ...

While listings are beginning to trickle back to the market, it is going to take a long time to fill the current inventory deficit.

A survey found that homeowners and potential homebuyers are positive about the housing market and where it’s headed. Here are some factors driving their confidence.

In a quarterly survey conducted by Zillow and Pulsenomics, a panel of economists, real estate experts, and market strategists agreed that the median age of first-time homebuyers is likely to keep moving up in the next decade as millennials wait until later in their lives to purchase. Among the more than 100 experts polled, a combined 85 percent said they expect the median first-time homebuyer age to rise at least marginally in the coming years.

In a survey of 106 experts in housing and investments, Zillow found a slight majority—28 percent—pinned the most blame for declining affordability on stagnant income growth across the country, even as the rest of the economy has moved in a generally positive direction. At the same time, the number of respondents pointing to "abnormally high rates of home price and rent appreciation" as the main problem was only slightly smaller at 27 percent.