Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard discuss the rise in existing home sales in May, but new homes were a different story… Today’s article from the United States Census “Monthly New Residential Sales, May 2025” states new home sales fell 13.7% from April. Rich doesn’t find this surprising; we are right at the end of a quarter so we expect June to be better. This compares with new home starts which are down about 10%. We predict prices will rise next quarter with the extra tariffs hitting lumbar. Overall, inventory is not the issue, there’s more new and existing homes for sale. We just need more affordable interest rates for all those first-time homebuyers to be enticed to buy. Listen in as we discuss this and more!
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