Design What to Know About 'Zoom Room' Design Joining the list of new homebuyer demands is the Zoom room. A Zoom room is an area of the home dedicated to conducting video conferencing...
Market Data + Trends Urban Flight May Spur a Suburban Makeover With urban flight still underway, the suburbs may be quickly changing. Leaving cities for suburbs is no new trend, but the pandemic pushed...
Coronavirus Resources and Information Why Housing Has Boomed During a Pandemic The pandemic resulted in a near perfect situation for the housing market: Local governments mandated that people stay indoors as much as...
Market Data + Trends Suburban Demand Pushes Up Single-Family Rents Unlike dropping city center rents, suburban single-family home rentals are raising rents to make the most out of the suburban housing demand...
Coronavirus Resources and Information Vaccine News Affects Single-Family Home Builder Stocks Unlike the rest of the stock market, stocks from some of the country’s largest builders dropped yesterday amid COVID-19 vaccine news. Pfizer...
Build to Rent Pandemic’s Top Performing Real Estate: Built-for-Rent No other real estate sector’s performance during the pandemic can match that of the single-family rental space, says John Burns Real Estate...
Affordability Housing Affordability Hovers Over Two-Year Low Home affordability took a bigger hit in the third quarter of 2020, down to nearly a two-year low. Historically low mortgage rates are not...
Sales + Marketing Trends Measuring Buyer Demand From Showing Appointments Measuring buyer demand in a different way, the ShowingTime Showing Index compares the number of appointments made for virtual or in-person...
Market Data + Trends Homes on Private Islands See More Activity Amid Pandemic If you could run from the pandemic and live on a private island, would you? Muskoka, located in Ontario, Canada, is an area ripe with...
New-Home Sales To Gauge the Pandemic's Effect, Look to Raw Count of Home Sales While the seasonally adjusted numbers for home sales are important, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) says raw home sale counts are...
