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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Top Stories
The U.S. Housing Market Has 37% More Sellers Than Buyers—More Than Double Last Year’s Gap
LILY KATZ, Redfin News
There were an estimated 37.2% more home sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market in November (or 529,770 more, in numerical terms)—the largest gap in records dating back to 2013 aside from this summer. That’s up from 35.6% a month earlier and 17% a year earlier. The gap has been hovering above 35% since April.
US mortgage delinquencies jump to highest level in four years
LIEZEL ONCE, Mortgage Professional America
United States mortgage delinquencies jumped in November to their highest level in more than four years, but ICE Mortgage Technology argued the surge looked more like a calendar story than a turn in borrower health.
National News
The AI Boom Is Making Real-Estate Investors Rich—and Exposing Them to Risk
WILL PARKER, Wall Street Journal (Subscription)
Spending on data-center construction is poised to surpass office-building construction for the first time, changing the nature of property investing.
U.S. Home Sales Slightly Uptick in November
World Property Journal
The seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales rose 0.5% from October to 4.13 million, though overall sales remained 1.0% below levels recorded in November 2024.
Rising Home Insurance Costs Push Housing Finance To A Breaking Point
JENNIFER CASTENSON, Forbes
As housing faces more climate threats that result in more losses, the insurance program that it sits on is teetering on the brink of collapse. Yet, the home insurance market has three distinct stakeholders that have competing priorities, and today, there is no motivation for a collaborative solution.
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Industry News
MBA 2026 forecast: Slow growth amid inflation, rate hikes
SARAH WOLAK, HousingWire (Subscription)
The Mortgage Bankers Association forecasts U.S. economic growth to slow to 1.6% in 2025, with inflation and interest rates impacting the outlook. The chance of a recession is 35%, and mortgage rates are expected to stabilize.
Real Estate Technology
AI is changing the rules of mortgage industry marketing
SPENCER LEE, National Mortgage News
Among the changes mortgage businesses are trying to adjust to in the age of artificial intelligence, marketing strategy could turn out to be the trickiest to understand and implement.
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