Housing Market
All Reports
September 16, 2015
Redfin commissioned SurveyMonkey Audience to conduct an independent survey of 2,134 Americans who bought and/or sold a home in the past two years.
September 14, 2015
Will the Fed raise rates? Who knows. Should they? Absolutely. We explain why a September rate hike might be better for housing. Also: the world’s first crowd-sourced skyscraper and is suburban living like smoking?
September 11, 2015
If it gets more expensive to borrow, will people drop out of the housing market? Not likely. Rising mortgage rates -- or the fear of them -- barely registered in a recent Redfin survey of homebuyers. Fewer than 5 percent listed rising mortgage rates as their top concern, ranking it well below affordability.
September 10, 2015
The most important Fed meeting of all time is just a week away. As we await the central bank's verdict on whether to raise interest rates, here's what's happening with mortgages: Nothing. For the seventh week, the average cost of a 30-year loan is below 4 percent.
September 4, 2015
Call it a jobs Rorschach Test. The unemployment rate hit a seven-year low and the economy is adding work at a pretty decent clip. Great! But we got fewer jobs than economists expected and more adults are dropping out of the workforce.
