Zillow’s Take on the 2025 Housing Market
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In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Dr. Orphe Divounguy, senior economist with Zillow’s Economic Research team, to talk about what’s on the horizon for the housing market this year. Orphe shares the latest findings from Zillow’s 2025 forecasts, offers some surprising insights from Zillow’s rental data, gives us a framework for understanding mortgage rates and affordability in the U.S., and much more.
About Dr. Orphe Divounguy
Orphe Divounguy is a senior economist with Zillow’s Economic Research team where he analyzes economic data to try and identify emerging trends in the housing market. In the past, Orphe’s work focused on quantitative methods for evaluating the impact of economic policy. Orphe earned a doctorate in economics from England’s University of Southampton.
Orphe is also the founder of the Quantitative Research Group and the co-host of the Everyday Economics podcast.
The team’s research can be found at zillow.com/research and includes analyses about for-sale and rental market dynamics, fair housing, and other topics. Zillow also provides dozens of housing market datasets freely available for download at zillow.com/data.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- Details from Zillow’s 2025 housing market forecasts: mortgage rates, home sales and home prices
- How American homeowner wealth helped stave off recession and what it means for the housing market in 2025
- The most important macro economic trends to watch now and what they mean for real estate this year
- Surprising insights from Zillow’s rental data on trends in apartments and single family rentals, and what to expect in the near future.
- Which local markets to watch in 2025 and why
- Smart thinking on the affordability crisis, how it’s changing and how we might find our way out
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The Top of Mind podcast features top real estate industry insiders and experts to unpack the most important housing, real estate, mortgage data and trends that are shaping the housing market. Hosted by Altos founder Mike Simonsen and produced by the HousingWire Content Studio.
