CHARLOTTE, N.C, – Zillow’s 10 hottest housing markets of 2025 have just been released, and Charlotte made the list at #7, staying steady from last year. Zillow forecasts home values to rise 3.2% in the metro over the course of 2025. Affordability improved slightly nationwide over the last year, but it continues to drive demand. Low inventory and fast sales are other common threads among high-ranking metros in this index of expected competition, along with job growth that’s outpacing new home permits. Buyers chased affordability across the Sun Belt in 2022, into the South in 2023 and around the Great Lakes in 2024. This year the Midwest and Northeast feature prominently, while Salt Lake City brought the West back to the top-10 after being shut out last year. Zillow expects home values, sales, and inventory to continue a slow and steady path upward in 2025, though mortgage rates will play a major role in making that happen. Read the full article here.