Posted on 01/26/2026 10:52:28 AM PST by Kaiser8408a
Its some kind of wonderful … for home buyers.
Home sellers outnumbered buyers by 47.1% in December 2025, the largest gap since Redfin data began in 2013.
The percentage jumped by +7.1 points from November, the biggest monthly increase since September 2022.
The number of active homebuyers fell -5.9% MoM to 1.34 million, the lowest level on record.
Meanwhile, home sellers declined -1.1% MoM to 1.97 million, the lowest since February 2025.
By comparison, in November 2021, there were 36.5% fewer sellers than buyers.
This all comes as elevated housing costs and economic uncertainty continue to push buyers to the sidelines.
Buyers now hold unprecedented negotiating power, but only if they can afford to enter the market.
Let’s see what sugar babe (aka The Federal Reserve) does.
(Excerpt) Read more at confoundedinterest.net ...
They quit building condos in my area of florida. It’s all apartments now. That is a bubble that will burst too...
Normally I would say it would be good to make homes more affordable for people, but in reality it just means investors will scoop up the properties on the cheap.
“what a mess. Another Fed driven asset bubble is exploding”
shouldn’t hurt legit home buyers planning to stay a while ... hopefully, it’ll cause big loses for those big corps who’ve been wildly snapping up single family houses simply as a capital growth investment ...
Normally I would say it would be good to make homes more affordable for people, but in reality it just means investors will scoop up the properties on the cheap.
When 2.5 million illegals leave, housing prices SHOULD go down.
The skills of home ownership.
You mean like budgeting, prioritizing bills over luxuries and using math? Too hard for the live every day like nothing bad ever happens people with no cushion for unforseen problems.
EXACTLY..also lowering the mortgage rate even further will make the housing market BOOM. During covid my sister left the city and moved to Calabasas to get away from the dreck of the hobos and the crime in the city, the house she ended up buying had 8 offers BEFORE it even hit the market..she got a 2.5 percent mortgage rate then
My daughter and son-in-law just refinanced their home - does that technically count as a sale, because i’m sure there is a fair amount of that going on right now....that and illegals selling thier houses as they head out the door with their fraud tax money.
I thought Trump was interested in banning institutional investors from the housing market?
I thought Trump was interested in banning institutional investors from the housing market?
In many venues, when new buyers find out what they have to pay the local corrupt governments in property taxes nowadays, I’d bet it’s a deal breaker for many of them.
And it did
Same here in east Oregon. Nothing but apartments. And every scrap of property that goes on the market is snatched up in minutes to nameless corporations cash. I put a bid on a commercial lot just Friday. It was listed 7am and sold by noon, cash above asking price. When I sold my house it lasted 20 minutes and was sold cash above asking. I hate this fetid state but back here to help my elderly mum.
>> You mean like budgeting, prioritizing bills over luxuries and using math?
What “they” need to do is “they” need to make life skillz into a video game and hire influencers to make it go viral. Whoever “they” are what does that stuff.
>> When I sold my house it lasted 20 minutes and was sold cash above asking.
Hmmm... that doesn’t sound like a buyers’ market to me!
“My daughter and son-in-law just refinanced their home - does that technically count as a sale,”
No.
“> When I sold my house it lasted 20 minutes and was sold cash above asking.
Hmmm... that doesn’t sound like a buyers’ market to me!”
There are 279 real estate submarkets in the USA. Conditions always vary (sometimes widely) among them at any one time.
So there will be some good overdue price deflation.
Okay. Who decided on 279 as the number? Why not 17? Or 1,789?
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