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After a quiet end to the year, the Greater Oklahoma City housing market has delivered a clear and measurable shift in early January. New data from MLSOK shows a sharp rebound in homes

If you’ve been watching the housing market lately, you’ve probably noticed two things happening at the same time: mortgage rates have been bouncing around, and homes are taking different

If you followed headlines in 2025, you probably heard everything from “prices are falling” to “the market is frozen.” The reality, according to MLSOK data, is far more.

Dated: December 16 2025When buyers and sellers talk about price, the conversation usually starts — and ends — with list price. But over the last 45 days across Greater Oklahoma City, the

When buyers and sellers want the clearest picture of today’s real estate market, one metric often cuts through the noise better than any other: price per square foot. It’s simple,&

As we move deeper into the final stretch of 2025, the Greater Oklahoma City real estate market is showing clear signs of a transition. The latest MLSOK data through December 1st, 2025, reveals two

If you’ve been watching the Oklahoma City real estate market over the past few years, one thing is undeniable: home prices across Greater OKC have been on a steady, long-term climb.

The Greater Oklahoma City real estate market is heading into late November with two major trends that matter for both buyers and sellers: an upswing in homes going under contract 

Interest rates are scaring potential home buyers and sellers from making a move, but we need to look a little closer at the strategy of waiting.CURRENT VERSUS A POTENTIAL DROPAlthough hardly any

At a time when it has become harder than potentially ever before for first time home buyers, there is a new program in Cleveland County, Oklahoma where home buyers can get up to 3.5% in down payment

We dig through the data on the Greater OKC real estate market, so you can be an expert. Two of those numbers we love to track are the average seller concessions at closing and the number of homes

With mortgage rates now getting locked in the 5% range in many cases, Oklahoma City home buyers are wondering what kind of prices they may be facing as they take on the market. Prices have increased

The Fed meeting this week in Jackson Hole, WY, confirmed the expectation that we will see a 'change in policy' moving forward, with an end to rate hikes likely to be replaced by rate cuts. These

We have seen a very strong real estate market here in Oklahoma to begin 2024. Throughout January home sales have outpaced 2023 numbers and stayed pretty close to what we saw in 2022. What kind of

Although the overall residential home inventory around Oklahoma has improved since some of the record-lows in 2021, most of the inventory is relatively stale (has been on the market for a while).

If buying a home is on your resolution list in 2024, there are a few tools that will give you a giant leg up on the competition and the buyer competition is rising! One tool is knowing what sellers

Short answer: no. Home prices are not falling in Oklahoma. There is also a national year-over-year increase in home prices, but if you want to know more about how to make this market work for your

Interest rates continue to climb. For all of you out there waiting for “rates to come down,” I wouldn’t hold your breath. You can find experts projecting future rates in all

Mortgage rates have shown their least volatility in over a year and the market is reacting. Some areas have been strong prior to the stability, but others are heating up significantly!Hot or Cold

Interest rates have been the talk of the town since the Pandemic began. Initially the conversations stemmed from governing agencies dropping rates to prevent a global economic crisis and, recently,

The real estate market across the world has been volatile for the past three years and Oklahoma is no exception to that. After dramatic shifts into a frenzied seller’s market followed by

As major banks across the country band together to save a First Republic Bank while the FDIC is having to take over a SVB and now the news out of Europe with Credit Suisse, you might be wondering

In the Oklahoma City real estate scene, the pickings are slim, and the homes are few. The inventory of available properties is at all-time lows in some areas, leaving eager buyers scouring the

We are right at the cusp of the spring market where buyers are going to begin flooding open houses and new listings. Interest rates continue to drop which is further putting pressure on the extra

After a couple years of unprecedented appreciation in home prices nationwide, the media forecast seems to be shouting that home prices are falling. These predictions are coming from the recent Fed

So how’s the market? As Realtors® we get this question at every dinner party, family gathering, or any other situation where you might have a lull in the conversation and someone needs a

Now that the average 30-year mortgage rates are hovering around 7%, many potential sellers are wondering if it is still possible to sell their homes in this market. After a period of record

Dated: October 17 2022Our upcoming holiday shopping season will be filled with days like Prime Day, Black Friday and even Cyber Monday, but what about getting real estate on sale? Is that even a

Dated: October 10 2022Views: 180You don’t have to look far these days to see a graph like the one above and a projection of absolute doom and gloom for the real estate market. This narrative

What we know right now is that the Federal Reserve intends to continue bumping up interest rates until inflation is under control. The Chairman of the Fed, Jerome Powell, said in his Jackson Hole

At this point it is doubtless that you have heard things in the news about the slow down in the housing market and the substantial decrease in overall real estate GDP. While this is definitely the

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