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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Fewer Renters are In The Mood (to Buy a Home)

  According to the latest edition of The U.S. Housing Confidence Survey (HCS), renters continue to have positive homeownership aspirations. For example, in January, more than six in ten of the 3,741 renters surveyed across 20 of the largest U.S. cities said that they believe that owning a home provides a person more freedom than…

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