Realtor.com® 2025 Forecast Update: Affordability Crunch Stalls Market Momentum - News (NASDAQ:NWSA), News (NASDAQ:NWS)

Realtor.com® 2025 Forecast Update: Affordability Crunch Stalls Market Momentum - News (NASDAQ:NWSA), News (NASDAQ:NWS)

With home sales expected to dip below 2024 levels, rising delistings and regional shifts complicate what was once expected to be a turning point for buyers AUSTIN, Texas, July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Home sales are expected to remain subdued in 2025, as persistent affordability challenges and mortgage rates that have stayed higher than anticipated continue to put pressure on the market, according to the Realtor.com® 2025 Forecast Update. Home p…

US homebuilders head into back half of 2025 with rising costs, tariff uncertainty - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

U.S. homebuilders are navigating several headwinds as they approach quarterly earnings reports, including rising costs of construction materials, persistently high interest rates, and concerns that President Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportation efforts could significantly impact the construction industry.

With Tariffs At 100-Year High, CT Officials Back Price Gouging Protection Act

The average tariff rate sits at 18.7%, the highest in more than a century. Food costs are projected to rise 4.1% in the short term and 3.3% overall, while apparel prices have surged as much as 40%. Lower-income families are losing the equivalent of 4% of their annual income, according to the data.

U.S. homebuilders head into back half of 2025 with rising costs, tariff uncertainty

By Aatreyee Dasgupta

U.S. producer prices flat in June, but tariffs lift goods costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 21, 2025 — U.S. producer prices were unexpectedly unchanged in June as a tariff-driven increase in the cost of goods such as communication and related equipment was offset by softening demand for travel services. The weakness in the cost of services, if sustained, offers hope that a tariff-induced flare-up in inflation will not lead to broad-based price pressures, allowing the Federal Reserve to resume cutting interest rate…