The Real Estate Markets Worth Watching Right Now and Why

Not every real estate market moves the same way. Right now, that gap is harder to ignore than it has been in years. Housing affordability has broken down across much of the country yet prices keep holding near record levels.

Jim Doti, economist and president emeritus at Chapman University, has spent years building an index to find out which cities are actually gaining ground and why. In this episode, he joins us to explain why the market is more frozen than most people realize, what the data says about where real growth is forming, and which specific markets his index is flagging right now.

Timestamps:
03:47 Why Prices Aren’t Dropping
06:26 How Fed Policy Drove Home Prices
08:50 Will Mortgage Rates Fall Again?
11:34 Policy Impact on Housing Costs
14:00 Finding Real Estate Hot Zones
19:02 Case Study: Columbus Growth
21:19 New Hot Spots vs Old Tech Hubs
22:57 Using Hot Zone Data to Invest
24:58 Why People Are Leaving California
27:27 How Long Hot Zones Last
32:30 Regulation and Housing Supply

More information on Dr. Doti’s work can be found here: https://economicforecast.chapman.edu/