Housing Market
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January 22, 2019
Although the number of homes for sale is increasing rapidly in some markets, the number of affordable homes for sale is falling. We have written a lot recently about rapid growth in the supply of homes for sale in many markets such as San Jose and Seattle. But with both home prices and interest rates […]
January 22, 2019
Sales of new homes in all four major US regions dropped in the last two months of 2018. The year-over-year trend was especially drastic in the Northeast, where new-home sales fell by 16.1 percent in December. Here’s a look at the annual drop in single-family new-home sales (seasonally adjusted) across the country in the final […]
January 16, 2019
December home sales fell 11 percent as prices turned in their smallest gain in over six years. Boston and San Jose both saw prices decline year over year. As predicted by CEO Glenn Kelman in early November, the housing market ended 2018 not with a bang, but a whimper. U.S. home-sale prices increased just 1.2 […]
January 7, 2019
35-44 year olds were hit hardest by the housing bust just as they reached prime first-time homebuying age Less than half of homebuyers and sellers between the ages of 35 and 44 believe that real estate is a better long-term investment than the stock market, according to a survey Redfin commissioned in December of more […]
December 19, 2018
Buyers in every part of the city get a major reprieve, but one in three South Seattle offers still face competition As the share of Redfin offers facing competition plummets to an eight-year low nationally, the Seattle metro area has seen a particularly spectacular decline in bidding wars, falling from 75 percent of all offers […]
