Home Price Expectations Survey: Q3 Recap

Field period: August 5–14, 2026  |  114 responding panelists Higher-for-longer rates, sticky lock-in, and a cooling price outlook The latest Home Price Expectations Survey (HPES) — a quarterly poll of over 100 economists, real estate experts, and market strategists conducted by Pulsenomics on behalf of Fannie Mae — is out. Alongside the price expectations data,…

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Home Price Expectations Tick Up–But Consensus Is Elusive

  The results of the latest (Q2) edition of Pulsenomics’ Home Price Expectations Survey have been released, and they reveal that most of our expert respondents have become less downbeat about the 2023 outlook for U.S. home values. The survey data were collected May 9th– May 23rd. The mean of all 109 responding panelists’ expectations…

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The Cost of Rent Control is (Still) Too Damn High

  Some U.S. cities are evaluating or implementing new rent control regulations to curtail rapidly-rising rising rents and worsening rental affordability. For example, in just the past few weeks, rent control policy has garnered headlines in New York City, where the Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents for a year on roughly 1 million regulated…

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