Buyers are quitting the housing market. Zillow downgrades housing market forecast again

The biggest reason they’re leaving is the economy (inflation and worried about losing their job). The second reason is the high price of homeowners insurance. Third is they’ve bought over priced piece of shit vehicles for 100K, with payments spread over 96 months, which is insane. US buyers walk away from deals with cancellations at …

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Zillow CEO braces for another soft year in the housing market; Slowing auto sales fuel concern over near record car prices

The $16 billion company is pushing more into the transaction side of the real estate industry, which Jeremy Wacksman calls ‘a better business to be in.’ On his Zillow account, Jeremy Wacksman has “favorited” every home he’s ever lived in, just to keep tabs. Among them: a two-story, 2,500-square-foot house with four bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms …

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Zillow shares are getting crushed.

Zillow shares plunged more than 9% on Monday on worries that the online real estate platform could have a big new competitor: Google Search. Google appears to be running tests on putting real estate sale listings into its search results. Over the weekend, real estate tech strategist Mike DelPrete published mobile phone screenshots of Google …

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Zillow releases updated 2026 home price forecast.

Zillow’s home value estimate is now dropping in 24 states on a month-over-month basis, and in 15 states on a year-over-year basis, as of their August 2025 update. More broadly – home values are going down in half of the U.S. Housing Market, with the Sun Belt and West region experiencing declines. Access the data …

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Only 18% of single Americans make 100k or more, it now takes an income of 124k to buy the median priced home in America. Zillow CEO sounds alarm

It now takes an income of 124k to buy the median priced home in America. Only 18% of single Americans make 100k. 62% of homebuyers are married. Lower rates won’t fix family formation. See the problem? pic.twitter.com/4DO0rEKUTh — Cherrygarciafan. USD🏴‍☠️ (@cherrygarciafan) August 10, 2025 The median household income necessary to purchase the median priced home …

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Zillow thrives as housing market freezes: 230 million users scroll while prices fall and lawsuits mount

Zillow’s traffic hit 230 million monthly visitors while home sales collapsed to a 30-year low. Inventory climbed 17 percent year over year to 1.36 million listings. Price cuts reached 26.6 percent of active listings in June. Mortgage rates hover near 7 percent. Sellers won’t list. Buyers won’t bite. Zillow’s Q2 revenue jumped double digits. Stock’s …

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ZILLOW 40% DEEP Price Cuts

2/ 44% of consumers today say it is a bad time to buy a house because of high interest rates pic.twitter.com/leXBInoU37 — Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) May 18, 2025 4/ A record 34% of Americans today say that they would rent if they were going to move pic.twitter.com/vFtCmHK0ye — Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) May 18, 2025 6/ Home ownership …

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Welcome to Housing 2.0: where no one buys, no one sells, and everyone just doom-scrolls Zillow.

ya but like they are selling pic.twitter.com/FNDacasRZi — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 25, 2025 pic.twitter.com/yXocqFUlDH — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) April 25, 2025 Yes, and imagine what would happen to the housing market if the 30-year mortgage rate returned just to levels seen in the 90s (let alone the much higher ones in the 80s). pic.twitter.com/Ipi8rhjPmS …

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Zillow predicts home values to drop in every major U.S. metro. San Francisco faces steepest decline, Zillow forecasts -5.2% in home values

1) On a month over month basis, home values dropped in 24 of 50 states in March. The drops in value were most concentrated in the Sun Belt and Mountain West, as well as California. pic.twitter.com/xOuFYpoPNq — Nick Gerli (@nickgerli1) April 17, 2025 4) In Tampa, values are already down -3.3% over the last year. …

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Zillow officially cuts forecast. 242 cities heading for housing deflation; Households are on the Verge of Bankruptcy

Zillow just revised down their 2025 housing market forecast to 0.6% price growth on a national basis, down from 2.9% earlier this year. The result is that Zillow is now forecasting home price declines in 250 cities across America, a clear sign of a slowing housing market. The areas in the U.S. where home prices …

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Zillow estimates tanking. Investors taking $150,000 write downs on houses. May’s housing inventory surge to 481,000 echoes 2008 peak

Investors are now selling at a loss in Florida’s Housing Market, with the Zillow Value estimates on some listings collapsing as much as 30%. Indeed, the seasonally-adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of May was 481,000, marking the highest level since January 2008. This surge in inventory is a result of rising …

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