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Houses Wooden Row

Who is buying homes this year? How trends are changing

2025 has seen a growing split between extremes in the housing market… equity-rich, all-cash buyers are at an all-time high, while cash-strapped first-time buyers are at an all-time low. The...
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House Basket Of Money

Weekly real estate market update 10/31/25… affordability is slowly improving

New listings and pending sales continue their downward slide this week… even price changes are not jumping up. What did increase are the number of transactions falling through… but not...
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Houses Money

Weekly real estate market update 10/24/25… showings still strong

Showing activity continues to hover over the last 4 years, perhaps encouraged by slowly improving mortgage rates. Most metrics fell this week… except multiple offers, which went up instead of...
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2025 09 Supply Of Inventory

September 2025 real estate market update… still a buyer’s market

In September 2025 new listings in the Twin Cities region increased 5.2%, pending saleswere up 7.9%, and closed sales were up 7.5%. In spite of the rise in new listings,...
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New Construction5

Weekly real estate market update 10/17/25… new home construction highest in 2 years

Showing activity is still just a little ahead of last year. But more significantly, it is ahead of every year at this time going back to 2021. New listings and...
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2026 Housing Market Outlook

from our blog at Keeping Current Matters, a national outlook After a couple of years where the housing market felt stuck in neutral, 2026 may be the year things shift...
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Homes

Weekly real estate market update 10/10/25… showing activity even stronger this week

Last week year-over-year showing activity was the highest in five years and this week showings are even stronger… did buyers get the message that October is the best time to...
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Showing Stats 2025 10 01

Weekly real estate market update 10/3/25… showings strongest in 5 years

Year-over-year showing activity this week surpassed previous years for the first time this year… higher than the last four years. It appears buyers are eagerly searching for homes to buy,...
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