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Mike Simonsen

  • Chief Economist, Compass
  • None, Housingwire Top of Mind Podcast
San Francisco
As seen in: Yahoo Finance, HousingWire, Inman News, Yahoo Finanzas, REAL Trends, Rose Law Group, Wealth Creation Investing
I help people understand the housing market. Now: Chief Economist at Compass. Prev: founder CEO, Altos Research (aqc by HW Media)
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When will home sales finally return to normal?

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By Mike Simonsen
| HousingWire Verified
The real estate industry is still reeling from four years of desperately slow home sales. The transaction is the unit upon which everyone gets paid. Whether sale commission, mortgage origination, insurance, movers, appliances or furniture — everything happens when the house is bought. Four years after the pandemic boom, the housing industry is still 30% smaller than it was. Forget returning to the boom times, everyone wants to know simply when do we finally get back to normal?
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Compass chief economist: The off-MLS marketing debate is ignoring 1.4M listings

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By Michael Simonsen, Mike Simonsen
| Inman News Verified
In 2025, nearly 1.4 million homes were withdrawn from the MLS. Not sold, withdrawn. Pulled from the market, held off for days, weeks or months, then relisted as if new. I’ve been tracking this practice for 20 years. I first started measuring it at my company, Altos Research, in 2006, when a potential venture capital investor told me bluntly: “This market is a racket. All the new listings are fake.” He was shopping for a home in Silicon Valley at the beginning of the end of the housing bubble.
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Why the hiring rate matters more than unemployment for the housing market

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By Mike Simonsen
| HousingWire Verified
After painful delays following last fall’s government shutdown, labor market data is finally back on a consistent pace. Last week we filled in hiring, quits and layoffs from the BLS JOLTS report for February, plus unemployment numbers for March and the latest initial claims for the first week of April. Taken together, they help illustrate how the labor market drives the housing market in 2026, where housing is solid and where the risks are.
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