{"id":45615,"date":"2016-02-29T08:42:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfindevelop.wpengine.com\/blog\/?p=45615"},"modified":"2020-10-06T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:08:20","slug":"suburbs-are-still-in-demand-mortgages-are-healthier-and-tiny-houses-have-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/suburbs-are-still-in-demand-mortgages-are-healthier-and-tiny-houses-have-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Suburbs Are in Demand, Mortgages are Healthier And Tiny Houses Have Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Last week<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> we got a glimpse at how <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/jennifer-lawrence-and-cate-blanchett-both-live-in-very-charming-homes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/leonardo-dicaprio-and-matt-damon-are-both-nominated-for-an-oscar-but-which-actor-has-the-winning-home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> while world financial VIPs made <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2016-02-28\/g-20-fails-to-address-threats-to-global-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">chit chat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about the economy and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-02-29\/china-cuts-reserve-ratio-in-latest-step-to-support-growth\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">China<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> got worse. Coming up: The GOP\u2019s slow-motion <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/divisions-within-gop-over-trumps-candidacy-are-growing\/2016\/02\/28\/97b16010-de3a-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">implosion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> going into Super Tuesday, a fresh look at the jobs market on Friday, rivers of trash and the next big thing in tiny houses.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>The \u2018burbs are back.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Or, more accurately, maybe they never went away. Only 8 percent of homebuyers want a house in the city. Two-thirds want to live in the suburbs, according to the latest <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nahb.org\/en\/news-and-publications\/Press-Releases\/2016\/02\/nahb-study-reveals-the-housing-preferences-of-the-boomer-generation.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the National Association of Homebuilders. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Failed loans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Bank losses from bad loans rose last year for the first time since 2009 but oil, not mortgages, were to blame. More homeowners paid on time and fewer defaulted, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fdic.gov\/bank\/analytical\/qbp\/?source=govdelivery&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">banking regulators<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Lending is up <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than 6 percent, which bodes well for the U.S. economy. Not all debt is bad.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Wow.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ISIS is bulldozing Syria. Look at this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/02\/this-map-reveals-the-full-extent-of-isis-s-cultural-destruction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">interactive map<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><br \/>\n<b>Economic roundup<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Parts of the U.S. are doing pretty well. Others aren\u2019t. Take a look at the new <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/eig.org\/dci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Distressed Communities Index<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the Economic Innovation Group and the latest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/poverty\/report\/2016\/02\/23\/131552\/state-of-the-states-report-2015\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">State of the States<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> report from the Center for American Progress. As for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/redfin\/2016\/02\/24\/homebuyers-quit-making-offers-in-january-why\/#518e42ee1121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing market<\/a>, it&#8217;s chugging along.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>If you click just one thing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Look at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/tamerragriffin\/there-is-a-giant-rancid-river-of-uncollected-trash-flowing-t?utm_term=.dreypO46G6#.itdJ9yqVPV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this picture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of a toxic river flowing through a big city. <\/span><br \/>\n<b>Fun with zoning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citiesskylines.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cities: Skylines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the latest urban planning game, there\u2019s one big thing missing: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cityobservatory.org\/what-i-learned-playing-simcity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><b>House calls.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Doctors in Texas and Florida spend more on their homes than those in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Huh? Research led by Eric Helland of Claremont McKenna College found that physicians pay 13 percent more for their homes when they live in a state that lets\u00a0them keep the house even if they go bankrupt. The paper, published by the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w22031?utm_campaign=ntw&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ntw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Bureau of Economic Research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, concludes that physicians and dentists in those homestead states might be using their houses to protect assets from malpractice claims.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Cash sales.<\/b> Still falling, but more slowly, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corelogic.com\/blog\/#.VtRm8ZMrLEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CoreLogic<\/a>.<br \/>\n<b>House hunters.<\/b> Last year, it took the typical buyer about 10 weeks to find the right home. That\u2019s longer than it used to take, but buyers are looking at about the same number of houses, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/economistsoutlook.blogs.realtor.org\/2016\/02\/23\/the-look-at-the-home-search-process-over-35-years\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+EconomistsOutlook+(Economists%27+Outlook)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Association of Realtors<\/a>.<br \/>\n<b>Tiny houses are so over.\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thousandhuts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wee huts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are the new thing. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>What you missed last week on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/blog\/real-estate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redfin Research<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/jan-miami-housing-market-tracker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miami suddenly has a glut of luxury condos.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/mortgage-rates-great-news-heading-into-spring.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mortgage rates are falling<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/homebuyer-demand-fell-11-percent-in-january.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There aren&#8217;t enough homes for sale.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your weekly roundup of housing market news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13355,"featured_media":42742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,74,89],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-45615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing-market-news","tag-housing-market-tracker","tag-mortgage-tips","tag-unique-homes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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