THE SION JOURNAL
A closer look at housing in Orange County, the Orlando area and Florida.
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New pending single-family listings rose 20.2% from a year earlier in the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metro. Ormond Beach increased from 72 to 156 new pendings. Deltona fell from 136 to 103 over the same period. The figures measure newly pending listings during five reporting weeks in each October.
Read full article →Freddie Mac reported a national 30-year fixed mortgage average of 7.18% on November 5. The average was 7.24% the previous week and 6.22% a year earlier. The 15-year average edged down from 6.60% to 6.57%. The survey tracks qualifying mortgage applications nationwide.
Read full article →Freddie Mac reported a 7.24% average for a 30-year fixed mortgage on October 29. The average was 7.32% one week earlier. The comparable reading a year earlier was 6.17%. These are national survey averages, not rate quotes for individual buyers.
Read full article →Florida recorded 22,664 existing condo and townhouse sales in the third quarter of 2026. That was 3.1% more than in the same quarter of 2025. Single-family closings edged up 0.2% over the same period. September alone was weaker than the quarter as a whole.
Read full article →September sales fell 6.2% from August while the reported median price changed only slightly. Our first market brief separates regional sales data from neighborhood rental conditions.
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