By Wk Real Estate - February 19, 2026
If you’ve been looking to buy a home in the years since the pandemic, you may have noticed some hopeful signs last year. In 2025, housing affordability was the best it’s been in three years. Unlike the go-go years of 2020 to 2022, when home prices shot up and outpaced income by a wide margin, the housing market last year was refreshingly calm. Mortgage rates eased off their highs, home