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Flippers Outpace Builders: Doubling Starter Home Supply in 2025

"Flippers Outpace Builders: Doubling Starter Home Supply in 2025"

Title: Flippers Supplied 2x More Starter Homes Than Builders in 2025: A Changing Landscape in Real Estate In a surprising shift within the real estate market, house flippers in 2025 have significantly outpaced traditional home builders in supplying starter homes. Flippers, who buy and renovate properties for resale, have provided double the number of entry-level […]

How Confident Are Builders? Q1 Data Reveals Insights

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In This Article Every month, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) tracks the sentiment of homebuilders nationwide. Rated from 0 to 100, a score greater than 50 indicates builders are optimistic. Below is a graph of this sentiment score since 2015: NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index You can visually see that the score has […]

In September, there was a notable increase of 12.3% in new home sales.

New Home Sales Up 12.3% in September

According to the U.S. Government, sales of new single-family houses in September 2023 reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 759,000, marking a 12.3% increase from the revised rate in August and a 33.9% increase from the same period last year. The median sales price for these new houses was $418,800, while the average sales […]