Market Trends
7 Home Buyer, Seller Market Trends to Watch
Excerpted from Realtor Mag Winter, 2025
Presented by Stephen Lee with CRI
The Percentage of their asking price sold
100% The percentage of their asking price that sellers typically sold their property for
—the highest recorded sale-to-list median in 22 years.
All Cash Buyer
26% More than a quarter of home buyers paid all cash for their home purchase, an all-time high.
First-Home Buyer
24% First-time buyers’ share of the market fell to a historic low.
Multigenerational Households
17% Multigenerational households
—comprising parents, adult children, siblings and grandparents
—climbed to an all-time high of purchases.
For Sale By Owner
6% The percentage of transactions that were For Sale by Owner;
90% of home sellers used a real estate agent.
New Home
15% The share of purchases that were new homes—the highest share in 17 years.
The Median Downpayment
18% The median down payment for recent buyers—the highest in more than 20 years.
First-time home buyers put down a median 9%, while repeat buyers had a median 23% down payment.
- Political Uncertainty
– Rent caps for corporate landlords
- High Financing Costs
– Interest rates began dropping in the fall but remain elevated
- Loan Maturity Deadlines
– Nearly $1.8T commercial loan is set to mature before 2026
- Geopolitical and Regional Wars
– Supply chain disruption, inflation, labor woes…
- Home Insurance Costs
– Natural disasters caused $380B in losses in 2023
