2024 and the remainder of 2025 look and feel almost identical. Not much has changed, so far.

Forecasts show more people are expected to move and have been waiting for something or anything before they move.

When people move more homes sell.

Affordability has played a big part over the past few years, many sellers have been waiting. People can wait but they won’t wait forever. There are always people who need to move and more of them will start to act in 2026.

The numbers for 2024 are about 4.7 million homes sold. 2025 looks to come in around 4.8 million homes. 2026 forecasts are all over the map. We know it’s going to be larger but by how much? Thinking north of 6.0 million homes. Could be a lot more.

Interest rates come down much slower than they go up.

Rates will be lower in 2026 we just don’t know by how much. Rates were north of 7% and we expect rates in 2026 could be as low as 4.99%. Gee I hope I’m right.

Every time rates move even by a little bit it makes a huge difference to buyers.