All-cash home purchases reached a low this year largely due to historically low mortgage rates. Nassau County and a handful of Florida metros had the highest share of all-cash purchases this year. Nationwide, 24.3% of homes sold so far this year were bought with cash, down from 25.3% in 2019 and the smallest share since […]
Competition dipped slightly ahead of the holidays, but remained above 50% for the seventh-straight month amid record-low mortgage rates and relocations. Nationwide, 53.6% of home offers written by Redfin agents faced competition in November. While that’s down from a revised rate of 58.5% in October, it represents the seventh-straight month in which more than half […]
With the end of the pandemic in sight, more people will relocate than in over a decade The housing market will remain strong through 2021 as the economy recovers from the pandemic-driven recession. In early 2021, homebuyers will remain undeterred by the pandemic, eager to take advantage of sub-3% mortgage rates while they last. Later […]
Even as most of the U.S. housing market is hot, home values are down from last year in parts of Brooklyn, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, among other places that have been hit hard by the pandemic and the shift to remote work. Home values dropped 20.5% in October from a year before to $136,000 […]