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March 11, 2019
Pools are worth the most in Los Angeles. See where else pools add a big premium. How much is a pool worth? The answer depends on where you live. In Los Angeles, homes with pools sell for an estimated $95,393 more than comparable homes without them, making it the metro where pools are most valuable. […]
Home Sellers Increasingly Willing to Accept Offers From Buyers Who Need to Sell Their Own Home First
March 7, 2019
Seven percent of winning offers written by Redfin agents last month were contingent on the sale of the buyer’s home, up from less than 5 percent last year Here’s another sign that even as the spring housing market begins to heat up, buyers have more power than they did a year earlier: offers with home […]
March 6, 2019
Just how much money do the billionaires on Forbes’ latest list have? To put it into context, we created a list of billionaires who could afford to buy every home in certain cities. Jeff Bezos, who took the top spot on this year’s Forbes list of billionaires, couldn’t afford to buy every home in Amazon’s […]
March 4, 2019
And three southern metros—Louisville, Charlotte and Nashville—experienced the largest rise in low-income homeownership from 2012 to 2017. Minneapolis has the nation’s highest homeownership rate for low-income families. In the Minneapolis area, 57.7 percent of households with incomes in the bottom 25th percentile for the metro area were homeowners in 2017, followed by Pittsburgh (55.8%) and […]
February 26, 2019
Pending sales spiked 15% in the city of Seattle in January, up 8% in San Jose, Silicon Valley’s central city. The market cooldown may already be over in Seattle, San Jose and Boston. Pending sales—the count of homes that went under contract during the month—were up 4 to 15 percent in January from a year […]
