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City-by-city and metro-level coverage. Where inventory is climbing, where prices are softening, and which local markets are worth watching — built on the same data behind our 30,000+ market pages.
There is no national housing market. There is a weighted average of thousands of local markets that frequently move in opposite directions, and in any given quarter you can find metros with rising inventory and falling prices a few hundred miles from metros with the reverse. National coverage is useful for understanding rates and credit conditions. It is close to useless for deciding what to offer on a specific house.
This topic is the local layer. We cover metro and city-level movement — where active inventory is rebuilding toward balance, where the sales pace has slowed enough to hand buyers leverage, where price growth has flattened, and where affordability has compressed to the point that the marginal buyer has been priced out. The unit of analysis is the market, described by its data, and the comparisons are like-for-like: same metric, same period, same source.
Every article here connects back to the underlying pages. Properties Incorporated maintains market pages for cities and ZIP codes across all fifty states and the District of Columbia, built from Zillow home value and rent series, Redfin sales history, Census American Community Survey demographics, and Federal Reserve rate data. When an article names a market, that market has a page with the full series, the period each number covers, and the source it came from — so you can check the claim rather than take it. We describe markets in terms of prices, supply, and pace. We do not characterize the people who live in them, and we do not rank neighborhoods by anything other than published data.
Newest first, with the long-form reference guides at the top. Every article carries its published date; where an article was revised, the updated date appears on the article itself.
Weekly updates on prices, inventory, and trends. Free forever.
Studies are built directly on the database rather than on a single argument, and each one publishes its method and period alongside the result.
Redfin, Zillow, Fannie Mae, J.P. Morgan, NAR, and Realtor.com's 2026 home price and mortgage rate forecasts, compared side by side with dated sourcing.
The most affordable U.S. cities ranked by median sale price — and how far below the national median each one sells.
The articles above explain the method. These pages carry the numbers for a specific market, with the source and period on every series.
Tell us which area you are watching and your timeline. We'll send that market's brief — price direction, supply, and what to line up before you apply.