eClosings save time and stress—and they have the potential to save more than 100,000 trees per year. Anyone who has purchased a home knows there’s a lot of paperwork to read through and sign at the closing table. But with Redfin Mortgage and Title Forward now offering fully digital closings, which allow homebuyers to close […]
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Homebuyers are in the strongest position in years as the supply of homes for sale grows at fastest rate since May 2015 The housing market started off 2019 with buyers in a much better position than they were a year earlier. U.S. home-sale prices increased 2.9 percent in January compared to a year ago, to
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In Atlanta, price growth is stronger and homes are selling faster than they are in the U.S. overall, trends explained in part by the surge in people looking to move inland. Atlanta area home prices were up 4.8 percent annually to a median of $229,900 in January, marking nearly seven years of growing prices. While
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Just 13 percent of offers written by Redfin agents on behalf of their home-buying customers last month faced a bidding war, little changed from December’s record low, and down from 53 percent in January 2018. Two of last spring’s most competitive markets—Seattle and San Francisco—kicked off 2019 with fewer than one in five offers facing
Money can’t buy you love but it sure buys a pretty home. These are the top luxury trends and features guaranteed to be on home buyers’ wish lists for 2019.
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Volatility on Wall Street and global economic uncertainty may have contributed to a decline in high-priced home sales in the luxury market. The average sale price for luxury homes nationwide rose 4.7 percent annually to an average of $1,772,000 in the fourth quarter of 2018. That’s on par with the annual growth seen in the
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