Housing Market 2026 Forecast: Wharton Professor's Real Estate Trends to Watch
December 30, 2025
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On Knowledge at Wharton's This Week in Business, Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter of The Wharton School predicts
Despite the rise of AI and persisting commercial vacancies, in-person work will help local economies recover.
As for home buying, while inventories are increasing and mortgage rates have dropped somewhat, they are not low enough to open up the market to a greater proportion of buyers.
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