The dashboard is updated with new data monthly for more than 200 metro areas across the country. NAR members can find key metrics such as:
- Housing affordability shifts
- Sales and listing activity
- Home pricing trends
- Economic indicators that could be influencing the market
- Homeownership and demographic data
Pittsfield MA is our regional data: The interactive dashboard offers members access to the latest economic conditions—such as job and wage growth in their area—as well as charts on median home price growth, housing construction, the share of income that homeowners and renters spend on housing, average monthly payments and more. The dashboard also can be used to compare metro areas to national housing trends. For example, NAR’s data shows that if mortgage rates—which have been blamed for a sluggish home sales season lately—dropped to 6%, an additional 5.5 million households including 1.6 million renters could have the income needed to purchase a median-priced home. NAR’s newly released dashboard reveals that some metro areas would fare better than others if mortgage rates dropped to 6%—particularly Atlanta, Dallas, Minneapolis, Cleveland and Kansas City.