Market Data + Trends Frustrated Buyers Applied for Fewer Mortgages Last Week The Mortgage Bankers Association reports that mortgage application was down 2.5 percent last week, citing homebuyer pain points including...
Market Data + Trends Two Studies Say Boomer Sell-Off Coming to Housing Market Two new studies anticipate that the U.S. housing market is in for a mass unloading of homes by Baby Boomers. Currently, Boomers own two of...
Market Data + Trends For Many People of Color, Access to Affordable Homes Is Scarce In 2017, less than half of the rental listings on Zillow were affordable for the typical U.S. household. For black and Hispanic households,...
Market Data + Trends Most Single-Family Permit Growth Concentrated in West The total of single-family permits issued year-to-date (YTD) in 2018 through May went up 8 percent year-over-year, to 363,327, attributed to...
Market Data + Trends Waiting to Buy Beneficial for Millennials It makes financial sense for Millennials to rent in Denver, according to industry experts, as renting provides flexibility for those who...
Market Data + Trends The Best State for Retirees Nope, it's not Florida. A new study by Bankrate.com evaluated U.S. states by housing, quality of life, and cost of living, finding that...
Market Data + Trends Renters May Take Between Six Years, Three Decades to Save Up a Down Payment All real estate is local, yet the average American renter buying a median-priced home will need six and a half years to save up the typical...
Market Data + Trends Homebuyer Caution May Signal Future Flat Home Price Growth A new report from independent research group Capital Economics finds that more Americans say now is a bad time to purchase a home. High...
Market Data + Trends The 10 Fastest Growing Suburbs in the U.S. Homebuying demand in the suburbs is "fierce," according to Realtor.com. The real estate listings website crunched the numbers to determine...
Market Data + Trends Families More Likely to Rent Than Own Since 2008, Study Says More families are renting homes than buying them, according to a new study by online apartment-finding platform RENTCafé based in part on...