NAR’s Board of Directors approved the association’s operating, advocacy and consumer ad campaign budgets for 2025, among other actions.
NAR’s chief economist said there’s a rebound on the horizon for commercial brokers and agents. Commercial assets will recover as the economy improves.
Despite Fed rate cuts, mortgage rates rose on economic confidence even with weaker job gains and temporary factors that affected the market.
Consumer sentiment hits its highest since April. Long-term business conditions have reached their highest optimistic point in almost four years.
Despite higher home prices, the share of consumers who think it’s a good to time to buy increased to 20%. Those who think it’s a good time to sell declined to 64%.
A typical homeowner has accumulated $147,000 in housing wealth over the last five years. Prices remain on solid ground, NAR’s chief economist said.
NAR released a new guide for first time buyers and a video series for Realtors related to the practice changes for the proposed settlement.
Demand for apartments remains strong, but high construction costs, financing challenges, land shortages and regulations will slow development in the coming months.
Sellers have been turning to auctions when conventional sales methods don’t work, but some are seeing lower-than-expected sale prices or no sale at all.
High financing costs, geopolitics and AI innovations are among the most pressing topics facing real estate in the year ahead, the Counselors of Real Estate said.
