Does seasonality still matter for housing?

New listings are tracking mortgage rates, not temperatures

Hi! I’m Aziz. My newsletter contextualizes economic news using data visualization. These days I’m focusing on housing—hit reply and let me know what you think.

Activity in the housing market is typically like the weather—hottest in the spring and summer and coolest in the fall and winter.

But the pandemic threw off these well-established patterns. For t…