Zillow’s 2026 Housing Market Predictions
Zillow economists predict the housing market will warm up in 2026, with more sales and modest price growth.
Stories by Mischa Fisher
Mischa Fisher is the Chief Economist for Zillow Group and an applied statistics instructor at Northwestern University. His background is in quantitative economics and his research and insights have been widely cited by analysts, business leaders, and the media. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Times, the National Bureau of Economic Research, The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, NBC Nightly News, the American Economic Association, the National Association for Business Economics, and hundreds of other publications, podcasts, and conferences. He has served as a chief economist in both the public and private sectors, led product data science in the educational technology industry, and held statutory policymaking roles in the U.S. Congress focused on the financial services and commodity markets.
