CategoryMarket Trends/Reports

Rental Is Mental But Hurts Like Dental

NYC Rentals Are Setting New Price Records As Mortgage Rates Remain Stuck Manhattan Is Not A Leading Indicator For The US Housing Market Multifamily Sales Are Expected To Go Big In 2025 Back in college, I remember reading a story about the first lead singer for Van Halen getting into a bar fight, saying his adversary’s problem was “more dental than mental.” I applied the literary flex to today's...

Housing Notes Reaches Its Tenth Anniversary While DC Is A Gray Area.

Time Really Flies When You Write A Newsletter It's Been A Decade?!?!?!? WaPo Tracked DC Homes By Paint Color To Correlate With Gentrification Trends Like Exterior Paint Color Trends, We've Seen Plenty Of Emphasis On Interior Color Schemes On March 6, 2015, I sat down to write a newsletter different from my Matrix Blog after I grew tired of writing up to 5 blog posts a day since 2005. Housing...

Two Decades Of Manhattan Housing Market Performance Is Not Fishy

Since 2018, submarkets that experienced falling prices accounted for more than half of all markets. The difference between the share of falling markets by price and rising markets widened significantly over the decade. Market optics of the highend market smothered the impressions of the overall market. Yesterday our Manhattan Decade report was featured online in the New York Times (free link) and...

Manhattan Static Versus Dynamic Housing Insights (Think Reversible Belts)

Manhattan Price Trends And Listing Inventory Slid As Sales Edged Higher. Sales Of Four Or More Bedrooms Experienced The Most Significant Increase. The Slew Of New Ways To Look At Data Doesn't Seem To Keep Most Any More Informed This week, we released our 58page Manhattan Decade Report, a tenyear moving window of annual housing market results of the Big Apple. At each yearly launch, I eventually...

Listing Inventory Performance Is Local, No Matter What Font You Use

Listing Inventory Continues To Be The Most Important Metric On Housing Market Performance The Rise Or Fall Of Listing Inventory Is A Local Market Metric Florida Is Seeing More Inventory Growth On The Gulf Side I've touched on this issue before there are a number of people on X/Twitter (which has officially become a digital cesspool) shilling for apps and services, by presenting supply in a...

The Sweetest Big Apple Is New Development

Manhattan Sales Are Rising Both ReSales And New Development Manhattan New Development Is Leading The Market Manhattan ReSale Price Trends Remain Weak Today's Housing Notes is an explainer to make sense of the Q42024 Manhattan Market Report: Last week, we released it, and it showed polarizing results. By the way, Manhattan Sales was the first market report series I created way back in 1994 (30...

Manhattan Contracts Soar As Miami Beach Contracts Decline Less

Manhattan Contracts Have Soared Year Over Year Every Month Since July Miami Contracts Decline As Listing Inventory Increases From Record Lows Miami Is More Dependent On Lower Mortgage Rates Than Manhattan Due To Lower Price Point We released our new signed contract reports for New York and Florida today. The comparison between Manhattan and Miami showed both similarities and differences worth...

Manhattan Cash Share Falling As Mortgage Rates Fall

• The Market Share Of Manhattan Cash Is Falling With Mortgage Rates
• The Higher The Purchase Price, The Higher The Probability Of Cash
• Manhattan September Contracts Surged 18% YOY