Trends Home Sellers Raked in Profit in the Last Quarter of 2017 In the last quarter of 2017, home sellers took in an average 29.7 percent profit on their home sales, or $54,000 more than what they...
Market Data + Trends More Americans Are 'Doubling up' in Shared Households New research from the Pew Research Center shows that more Americans are moving in with friends, family, and other adults with whom they are...
Opinion Housing Industry Experts Weigh in on Trump's State of the Union Address This week, President Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address covering the recently passed tax reform, and the ongoing...
Opinion The Power of the U.S. Housing Market In 2017, the U.S. had the strongest housing market in 10 years. Redfin's chief economist Nela Richardson explains how housing helped the...
Market Data + Trends Airbnb's Effect on New York's Rental Market A new report from McGill University analyzed Airbnb activity in New York City between September 2014 and August of 2017, and found that...
Market Data + Trends Share of First-Time Homebuyers Plateaued in 2017 As Home Prices Rose As home prices increased rapidly from 2016 to 2017, the share of first-time homebuyers held steady at 32 percent of all buyers purchasing...
Market Data + Trends Shared Living Households Continue to Grow While the recent increase of shared living has been attributed to the large number of millennials moving back in with their parents, the...
Trends Strong Demand Is 'Eating' Tight, Existing Supply on Housing Market Existing-home sales went up 0.5 percent in December 2017 from November 2017, but the supply of homes for sale at the end of December fell to...
Affordability Home Builders Are Focusing on Affordable Homes, First-Time Homebuyers U.S. home builder D.R. Horton's Express Homes brand launched in 2014, geared toward first-time homebuyers. Last quarter, Express accounted...
Building Materials Builders and Botanists Are Promoting Hemp As a Valuable Construction Tool Several states in the U.S. have legalized marijuana use for some recreational and medical purposes. New reporting says that one of the...
