Sales Affordability Cited As Top Reason For Not Owning A Home The homeownership rate is at its lowest since the early 1960s, and anxiety over student loans and down payments aren’t helping
Sales Study Puts Home Value Estimator Tools To The Test The independent research company SSRS found that Redfin Estimate is most accurate in predicting the value of a house for sale. More than...
Sales First-Time Buyers More Likely To Make Down Payment Of Less Than 20 Percent A December survey of REALTORS found that 81 percent of first-time buyers who closed a house in Q4 2016 made a down payment of less than 20...
Opinion Why Are Chicago Home Sales Dropping? After a record year in Chicago, why the dip? A local real estate pro offers some explanation.
Sales Land Restrictions, Homeownership Subsidies Have Pushed Down Mobility Rates Only 5 percent of homeowners moved in 2016, down from 9.5 percent in 1988, according to new data from the U.S. Census. Also, only 11 percent...
Codes + Standards West Coast Cities Have Lowest For-Sale Housing Inventory In The U.S. Half of the top 10 cities with low inventory, including Seattle and Eugene, Ore., are located in that region
Sales February Is The Most Affordable Month For Homebuying With a median selling price of $104 per square foot, homes sell at a 6 percent discount in February compared to the rest of the year. The...
Sales Builders Could Bring Home Construction Boom To Red-Hot Dallas Home prices in Texas are expected to rise 31 percent over the next three years, and Dallas is shaping to be the hottest market in the state....
Sales Single Women Outpace Single Men At Buying Homes Of homebuyers last year, 17 percent were single women, while only 7 percent were unmarried men
Opinion Home Price Index Gains Ground In November For the three month period ending in November, the S&P/CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city index rose 5.3 percent from the year before and 0...