110: Center for REALTOR® Development: 2025 National & Local Market Outlook with Dr. Jessica Lautz from NAR: Part 1

110: Center for REALTOR® Development: 2025 National & Local Market Outlook with Dr. Jessica Lautz from NAR: Part 1

June 25, 2025 · 26 min

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Dr. Jessica Lautz discusses the current trends in the real estate market, focusing on demographics and market divisions.

Welcome, friends to the Center for REALTOR® Development podcast from the National Association of REALTORS®. I am so glad you are joining me and today's guest, Dr. Jessica Lautz from NAR. Dr. Lautz is the Deputy Chief Economist and Vice President of Research at the National Association of REALTORS®. I love, love, love my data friends and I always learn things to help me and my clients. These trends are so huge when talking with our clients and preparing ourselves, as well as just getting in the nitty gritty because our clients are looking at that national market but we're also in the local market. I'm so excited to talk today about how we put those two things together. We are releasing this interview in two episodes. This is Part 1. [1:16] Welcome, Jessica! What are the hot topics you are seeing that are important and different? Let's give our listeners a preview of what we're going to discuss in these two episodes, 110 and 111. [1:36] Jessica says the real estate market is divided into two markets. We have an all-time high of all cash home buyers with cash from housing equity. At the same time, we have an all-time low of first-time home buyers. [1:58] Everybody's demographics are…

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