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Thirty-five percent of people who bought a home last year said they made an offer without first seeing the home in person, up from 33 percent in<\/span> May 2017<\/span><\/a> and 19 percent in <\/span>June 2016<\/span><\/a>. This is based on a Redfin-commissioned survey conducted in November and December 2017, which included responses from 1,503 people who purchased a home in the previous 12 months. This is the final issue of a three-part series reporting on the results of the survey. The <\/span>first<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>second<\/span><\/a> reports focused on politics and the housing market respectively.<\/span>
\n\"Buying
\nMillennial homebuyers were even more likely to make an offer sight-unseen, with 45 percent in November and 41 percent in May saying they had done so. These results likely reflect millennials\u2019 comfort relying on information they find online about homes for sale, neighborhoods they might not have visited in person and the home-buying process in general.
\n\"Sight
\nMore than half (57%) of respondents who bought a home in Los Angeles<\/span><\/a> last year made an offer sight-unseen. The prevalence of foreign investors in L.A. may have played a role in the popularity of sight-unseen offers there. The market-by-market breakdown below shows that the trend was also driven by buyers in other competitive California metros, with 46 percent in <\/span>San Diego<\/span><\/a> and 44 percent in <\/span>San Francisco<\/span><\/a> having done so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Metro Area<\/span><\/td>\nPortion of Successful Buyers Who Said They Made<\/span>
\n<\/span> \u00a0an Offer on a Home They Hadn’t Seen in Person<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Los Angeles<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n57%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
San Diego<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n46%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
San Francisco<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n44%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicago<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n38%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Austin<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n35%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Denver<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n33%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n32%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phoenix<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n31%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Portland<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n30%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sacramento<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n30%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baltimore<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n28%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dallas<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n27%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n25%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seattle<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n19%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

People who can\u2019t get in to tour a home right away because they\u2019re busy or relocating from out of town often rely on tools like <\/span>Redfin 3D Walkthrough<\/span> <\/a>and FaceTime\u00ae to explore the home itself, and the vast array of statistics, reviews, maps and articles online that can help a prospective buyer understand what it\u2019s like to live in a neighborhood. However, in the case of offering sight-unseen, the agent can be a buyer\u2019s greatest resource.\u00a0<\/span>From the fast pace of the market, to the time constraints of buyers relocating from out of town, Redfin agents cite numerous factors that influence buyers to bid on a home before seeing it in person.<\/span>
\nAngela Hunter<\/span><\/a>, a Redfin agent in <\/span>Omaha<\/span><\/a>, worked with a family relocating from Jacksonville, Florida to Offutt Air Force Base in <\/span>Bellevue<\/span><\/a>, Nebraska.<\/span>
\n\u201cThis family had only a few weeks to find a home and they did not want to live on-base or rent,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cBecause the wife was\u00a0eight\u00a0months pregnant at the time, they needed a move-in ready home within 20 minutes of the base. While conducting video tours with them, I was very careful to explain things that they would not be able to experience virtually, like the sounds, smells and textures. I pointed out flaws that are hard to detect through video so that nothing would be a surprise to them once they visited in person. It\u2019s not the easiest way to shop for a home, but together we found the perfect match.\u201d<\/span>
\nWith no end to the housing shortage in view and more millennials entering the housing market, the trend toward sight-unseen bids is likely to grow in 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n

Methodology<\/span><\/h3>\n

Redfin contracted SurveyGizmo to field a study between November 1st and December 6th, 2017 of 4,270 people <\/span>from the general population who indicated they had bought or sold a home in the past year, tried to buy or sell a home in the past year or plan to do so this year. The survey targeted 14 major metro areas (<\/span>Austin<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Baltimore<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Boston<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Chicago<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Dallas-Fort Worth<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Denver<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Los Angeles<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Phoenix<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Portland<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Sacramento<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> San Diego<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>San Francisco<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Seattle<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/a>). For the purpose of this section of the report, we did not count responses from Austin, Phoenix or Sacramento in order to provide an accurate comparison to past results.<\/span>
\nRespondents consisted of those who successfully bought or sold in the past 12 months, tried to buy and\/or sell in the past 12 months or are planning to buy and\/or sell in the next 12 months. <\/span>
\nComparisons were made using results from similarly commissioned surveys conducted by SurveyGizmo in May 2017 and December 2016, and by SurveyMonkey in July 2016 and December 2015.<\/span>
\nFor more information about the survey and its findings, contact Redfin Journalist Services at \u00a0<\/span>press@redfin.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results of a recent Redfin survey show a growing trend of homebuyers making offers on homes before visiting in person. 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