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Economics

Cities with the highest rents are seeing those prices flatten, per the latest single-family rental price index report from real estate data...

Economics

In the week starting December 10, 2018, mortgage rates were even after two weeks of declines to the lowest levels since September 2018. ...

Market Data + Trends

'Vanishing' Buyer Demand in Seattle

Bidding wars are down to an eight-year low nationally, and are disappearing in Seattle. The share of Redfin offers facing competition in the...

Sales

Existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up in November 2018 over the previous month, but had the largest annual drop since May 2011, per the...

Sales

Housing Stock 'Bumping Along the Bottom'

Rather than signaling significant growth, the supply of for-sale homes grew 0.4 percent annually in November 2018, following October's 2...

Design

Hello, Goodbye: 2019 Design Trends

In the run-up to ringing in the new year, a new report predicts the design trends that are incoming and outgoing in 2019. Spoiler alert: the...

Builders

FWIW: For What It's Woonerf

Defined as "living street," the Dutch term Woonerf is characterized by shared spaces for pedestrians and vehicles, slower speed limits for...

Builders

A new end-of-year report from Redfin offers 7 predictions for the 2019 housing market including easier access to credit for homebuyers and a...

Economics

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted report, total mortgage application volume was down 5.8 percent last week...

Opinion

Expert Says Housing Market Is in a Correction

Builder confidence recently dropped to its lowest level in three years, single-family starts fell more than 13 percent over the previous...

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December