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Want more housing market stories from Lance Lamberts ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Zillow economists use an economic model known as the Zillow Market Heat Index to gauge the competitiveness of housing markets across the country. This model looks at key indicatorsincluding home-price changes, inventory levels, and days on the marketto generate a score showing whether a market favors sellers or buyers. Higher scores point to hotter, seller-friendly metro housing markets. Lower scores signal cooler markets where buyers hold more negotiating power. According to Zillow: Score of 70 or above = strong sellers market Score from 55 to 69 = sellers market Score from 44 to 55 = neutral market Score from 28 to 44 = buyers market Score of 27 or below = strong buyers market Nationally, Zillow rates the U.S. housing market at 52 in its August 2025 reading, published this month. That said, Zillows reading varies significantly across the country. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data["datawrapper-height"][t]+"px";r.style.height=d}}})}(); Among the 250 largest metro-area housing markets, these 20 are the HOTTEST markets, where sellers have the most power: Rochester, New York 153 Buffalo, New York 107 Hartford, Connecticut 90 Syracuse, New York 90 Albany, New York 82 Charleston, West Virginia 81 Poughkeepsie, New York 80 San Francisco 79 Norwich, Connecticut 79 Binghamton, New York 76 New York City 74 San Jose, California 74 Bridgeport, Connecticut 74 Springfield, Massachusetts 73 Canton, Ohio 73 Kingston, New York 73 Providence, Rhode Island 72 Lansing, Michigan 71 Manchester, New Hampshire 71 Boston 70 Among the 250 largest metro-area housing markets, these 20 are the COLDEST markets, where buyers have the most power: Jackson, Tennessee 8 Terre Haute, Indiana 10 Macon, Georgia 20 Lafayette, Indiana 21 Florence, South Carolina 22 Gulfport, Mississippi 25 Longview, Texas 27 Beaumont, Texas 29 Brownsville, Texas 30 Naples, Florida 30 Lubbock, Texas 30 Asheville, North Carolina 31 Waco, Texas 31 Daphne, Alabama 31 Panama City, Florida 31 Hickory, North Carolina 32 Bowling Green, Kentucky 33 Gainesville, Florida 34 Punta Gorda, Florida 34 McAllen, Texas 35 Does ResiClub agree with Zillows assessment? Directionally, I believe Zillow has correctly identified many regional housing markets where buyers have gained the most powerparticularly around the Gulfas well as markets where sellers have maintained (relatively speaking) somewhat of a grip, including large portions of the Northeast and Midwest. Based on my personal housing analysis, I consider Southwest Florida the weakest/softest chunk of the U.S. housing market. Not too far behind are pockets of Texas, Colorado, and Arizona markets, which have also seen a bigger buildup in resale inventory and unsold new-build spec inventory. In my view, many West Coast markets are softer right now than Zillows analysis suggests, in particular the areas that have recently seen big jumps in active inventory for sale. What did this Zillow analysis look like back in spring 2021 during the Pandemic Housing Boom? Below is Zillows August 2021 readingpublished in September 2021.
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This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. I go to conferences just a few times a year. To make the most of the frenzied days, I rely on a suite of tools. The Week Before 1. Mine Your Network Goldmine Clay: This personal rolodex enhances your contact list with info from LinkedIn and whatever other social platforms you choose (Instagram, Facebook, X). You can use Nexus, its new AI-enhanced search to surface contacts in your conference city or people in your network with specific expertise or interests. If you connect Clay to your calendar and email, it shows you a list of past meetings and email threads youve exchanged with a given contact for context. At the conference you can also use it to add private notes to a contact. Its free for up to 1,000 contacts, or $10/month billed annually for unlimited contacts. Pro alternative: Folk is a more advanced CRM (customer relationship management) tool thats useful if youre attending conferences for sales, or if you manage a service business that involves a lot of outreach. Its a surprisingly well-designed pro tool. Theres a new ChatGPT integration, so you can use ordinary language to query all your contacts and sales leads. If I were to run a sales-heavy project, Id use this. 2. Build Your Intelligence Hub Perplexity Spaces: Create a dedicated Space for your conferencethink of it as a smart folder for all your research queries. It can be private, shared with colleagues who can contribute, or public. Use it for queries related to conference sessions youre attending or leading. You can also use Spaces to plan for free time between sessions. Customize a Spaces instructions with your preferences to discover restaurants, music, museums, or whatever else interests you near the conference site. Upload files to give the AI assistant further context. Add reference docs from conference organizers, recommendations from friends, or a city guide you like. Learn more: Check my most recent Perplexity guide. Alternative: you can similarly set up a project in Claude or ChatGPT with relevant documents and queries. Or set up a notebook in NotebookLM. For further prep: Check out this pre-conference Planning Exercise, part of a helpful OpenNews tool kit by Emma Carew Grovum. 3. Create Pop-Up Networking Meals Partiful: Set up open lunches or dinners that conference connections can join spontaneously. Group meals build on hallway small talk for relationship building. Many people eat alone because coordinating is tricky, or they dont know where to go outside the hotel or conference center. Its completely free. Create events during the conference, then share the QR code when you meet someone interestingthey can RSVP instantly on their phone. You can use the app to check RSVPs or to send updates or follow-ups. Or post the RSVP link to an event discussion thread, or include it in an email. Schedule two to three meals throughout the conference and cap attendance at six to eight people for rich conversations. For informal conference get-togethers Partiful is a good alternative to Lu.mathe RSVP app I like using to send invites for my paid subscriber events online. Both are great, but Partiful integrates texting in a smart way, includes QR codes for RSVPing, and has a more social feel for spur-of-the-moment gatherings. At the Conference: Capture What Matters 4. Never Miss a Moment Granola: This hybrid note-taking app combines your typed notes with AI-enhanced transcription. Record sessions on your phone or laptop while jotting down key thoughts; Granola merges both into session summaries you can query. No audio or video is stored, just the transcript and summary. Ive been surprised at how accurate the transcripts tend to be, even when Im sitting in the middle of a large presentation room. Its free for 25 meetings or $18/month for unlimited use. Case in point: At the Online News Association (ONA) conference I just attended in New Orleans, I created a folder with Granola for all my session notes. Now I can query my whole collection of conference notes for follow-ups. Bloks is another good option that Ive written about before. It integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, and other pro platforms, but its now $69/month billed annually after a 14-day trial, so its relevant only for hard-core business use. Macwhisper is a great free app that can record and transcribe locally on your laptop, but it doesnt show you the live transcript or let you mix in your own notes. 5. Connect with People LinkedIn QR Code Scanner: Skip the business card shuffle. To use LinkedIn’s free built-in QR scanner, tap the mobile apps search bar and click the scanner icon on the far right. You can then scan someone elses LinkedIn QR code or have them scan yours. Youre instantly connected without having to type anything. No need to spend an hour processing a stack of business cards later. Uniqode: If LinkedIn doesnt suit you for connecting, create a free Uniqode digital business card. Save to your Apple or Google Wallet to easily share contact info without having to hunt thrugh your photos app. Or if you want a simple way to give people you meet a link, a PDF, a group of images, or a vCard with contact info, QR Codes Unlimited lets you quickly create and download a QR code for free with customized colors and designs. 6. Digitize Everything Scanner Pro by Readdle: Transform blurry photos of slides or awkward snapshots of handouts into clean, readable documents. The features I like: Access your scans from anywhere: Use Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive for automatic backups and to see or share your scans on any device. Quality scans: New tech improves on previous apps Ive tried. Smart cropping: The app auto-detects slide or paper edges. Conversion: I usually render scans in high-contrast black and white, unless the colors are crucial. Organization: Its simple to keep scans in topical folders (e.g., receipts, books, mementos, recipes, ONA25). Less paper: At conferences I try to scan most handouts now instead of hauling a stack of paper home. It lightens my bag, limits my office paper mess, and shortens processing time back at work. Cleaner camera roll: I prefer scans in a dedicated app so they dont clutter up my camera roll. This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.
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A cyberattack is causing major delays and some flight cancellations at European airports, including London’s Heathrow Airport. The cyberattack, which occurred on Friday, affected electronic check-in and boarding systems made and serviced by Collins Aerospace. Brussels Airport said that passengers were able to check in manually, while other airports noted that longer wait times were likely. RTX Corp., the parent company of Collins Aerospace, said it is working to rectify the issue. “The impact is limited to electronic customer check-in and baggage drop and can be mitigated with manual check-in operations,” the company said in a statement to Reuters. Fast Company reached out to RTX for comment but did not hear back by the time of publication. According to FlightAware, a Houston-based flight tracking data company, Heathrow alone has seen more than 400 delays today. Some 651 flights were slated to depart from the airport Saturday, according to Reuters. The cyberattack is the latest in a run of similar incidents affecting airports in recent years. According to the Technology Advancement Center, a nonprofit that tracks technology, ransomware and other cyber threats on aviation systems have increased 600% from 2024 to 2025. The affected airports have advised fliers to check their flight status for cancellations or delays.
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