Skylar Olsen, PhD

Skylar Olsen is chief economist at Zillow. In her role, she brings a unique flavor of consumer-friendly analytics to homeowners, homebuyers and home sellers. Dr. Olsen has been a foundational member of the company’s public-facing economic research program. Olsen has appeared as a housing expert on local, national and international stages, television broadcasts, podcasts, print news and radio stations as well as testified before Congress’ Housing Financial Services Committee on fair housing issues.

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Olsen's Latest Posts:

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Housing Market

Rent vs buy: The pandemic and beyond

You’ve got a lifestyle in mind. Will you be financially better off renting or buying it? Reporting on monthly affordability differences illuminates only a small chunk of this question, which

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Housing Market

Housing Data Slam

The Federal Reserve and Mortgage Rates The housing market is at a tense moment. The urgency of persistent, painful inflation (+8.6% year-over-year in March; yikes!) finally pushed the Federal Reserve

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