Market Update

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MATTHEW'S FINAL EPISODE FOR 2020

December 7, 2020

In our final episode of "Monday with Matthew" for 2020, Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner looks to the year ahead in his 2021 U.S. Housing Forecast, including his predictions for mortgage rates, sales, forbearance, and more. For full transcript: https://www.windermere.com/blog/matth...

November 23, 2020

We’re back with another episode of “Monday with Matthew,” with our chief economist, Matthew Gardner. This week he’s diving deep into the dark corners of the latest US home sales data.

POST ELECTION MARKET UPDATE

November 12, 2020

Every time a new U.S. president is elected everyone wonders how the housing market will be affected. Windermere’s very own Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner, offers his perspective on what a Biden administration means for real estate and how a single state’s Senate race could be the deal breaker.

November 9, 2020

On this week’s episode of “Monday with Matthew,” our Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner, analyzes the surprisingly strong U.S. Job Market Report from October. This video was recorded Friday, November 6th.

October 26, 2020

In today's episode of "Monday with Matthew," Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner dives into three of the latest housing market data releases and gives context to their historical significance.

October 5, 2020

This week on "Mondays with Matthew" with Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner, he covers last week’s top economic headlines. Watch here for updates on the latest Case-Shiller and Consumer Confidence indexes.

Sept 28, 2020

On this week’s "Mondays with Matthew," Windermere’s Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner analyzes data released last week about existing home sales, new home sales, and mortgages, demonstrating the housing market’s resilience in an economy mired by COVID-19.

Sept 21, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew", Matthew Gardner discusses the most recent economic and real estate news, including retail sales, consumer sentiment, and the housing market index which is published by the National Association of Home Builders.

September 14, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew,” Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner revisits mortgage forbearance, bringing you the latest in light of some recent headlines.

August 31, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew," Matthew Gardner looks at last week's real estate and economic news and goes beyond the headlines so that you can not only stay on top of the issues that affect you and your business, but also get more detail than is generally offered by the media.

August 24, 2020

Matthew Gardner is back from his vacation and this week on "Mondays with Matthew," he's diving into a report that he believes deserves more attention: the U.S. Household Debt & Credit Report.

August 10, 2020

This week on "Mondays with Matthew," Matthew Gardner analyzes homeownership trends over the decades, breaking it down by age, race, household income, and median home price.

August 3, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew," Matthew Gardner analyzes the latest Case Shiller Home Price Index numbers and explains some of the lesser known (yet, still important) aspects of the report.

July 27, 2020

On this week’s episode of “Mondays with Matthew,” Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner is updating his housing forecast for 2020 and analyzing the National Association of Realtors’ June Home Sales Report.

July 20, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew," Windermere Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner, dives into the most recent National Housing Survey results which tell us a lot about consumer confidence both pre- and post-COVID and whether or not they feel this is a good time to buy or sell a home. The results might surprise you!

July 13, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew," Windermere Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner, analyzes several aspects of the housing market to see how it has fared over the past 16 weeks amid COVID-19.

July 6, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew", Matthew Gardner discusses what is needed to motivate more Millennials to buy and the important role they play in the long-term health of the US housing market.

June 29, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew", Matthew Gardner discusses housing affordability and how he believes that despite the impact of COVID-19, affordability issues will remain and may actually get worse as we move forward.

June 22, 2020

In this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew", Windermere Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner, dives into the high frequency data sets that he uses to help determine where the US economy is at with emerging from the impacts of COVID-19. Hint: there's progress, but we aren't out of the woods yet.

June 15, 2020

On this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew", Windermere Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner provides an update on the forbearance program and what type of effect we can expect it to have on the US housing market.

June 8, 2020

Twelve weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic and we are certainly seeing the impact it has had on the housing market. Today’s episode of “Mondays with Matthew” covers home prices now, and what to expect for the rest of 2020..

June 1, 2020

This week on "Mondays with Matthew": Now that things have settled down somewhat following the initial impact of COVID-19, Matthew dives into the topic of mortgage rates. Will they go below 3%? Matthew discusses this and the factors that have formed his updated 2020 and 2021 mortgage rate forecast.

May 18, 2020

In this week’s episode of Mondays with Matthew, Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner kicks off a series of episodes in which he answers questions from his followers. The first deals with how COVID-19 will impact buyer behaviors, especially in more urban markets

May 11, 2020

Job growth is critical to the health of the housing market, so on this week's episode of "Mondays with Matthew", Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner analyzes the effect of COVID-19 on employment and what we can expect for the duration of the year.

May 4, 2020

Chief Economist for Windermere Real Estate, Matthew Gardner, returns for his weekly update, Mondays with Matthew. This week, he discusses forbearance options available to homeowners who are struggling to pay their mortgage.

April 27, 2020

This week on “Mondays with Matthew”, Matthew Gardner addresses the growing concern that the housing market is heading towards a repeat of the 2008 meltdown. He uses data to illustrate how we are in a very different place than when the housing bubble burst.

April 20, 2020

This week on “Mondays with Matthew” Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner analyzes the past two decades of the new home construction market and then discusses his predictions for this segment of the market going forward.

April 13, 2020

This week on “Mondays with Matthew” Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner discusses the impact of COVID-19 on 30-year-mortgages and gives an updated 2020 interest rate forecast.

April 6, 2020

In the latest episode of “Mondays with Matthew”, Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner dives into part one of his two-part series analyzing the mortgage market. Today’s focus is on the substantial impact COVID-19 has had on jumbo mortgages. Check back next week when he’ll discuss conventional mortgages and provide his latest interest rate forecast.

March 30, 2020

Every Monday Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner provides an update regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the US economy and housing market. This week he discusses what it really means for the economy and housing to be in a COVID-19 induced recession (hint: it's not all bad news).

March 23, 2020

Every Monday Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner provides an update regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the US economy and housing market.