{"id":81680,"date":"2025-08-13T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/?p=81680"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:53:34","slug":"survey-homebuyers-compromise-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/survey-homebuyers-compromise-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"One in Five House Hunters Is Willing To Compromise Personal Safety to Afford a Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal safety is the number-one must-have on homebuyers\u2019 checklists, though 22% say they\u2019re willing to compromise on it for affordability. The next-most important priorities are a low crime rate and low risk of natural disasters.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roughly one in five (22%) homebuyers are willing to compromise personal safety to afford a home, according to a recent Redfin survey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, personal safety is the top non-negotiable for homebuyers, with 78% calling it a \u201cmust have.\u201d It\u2019s followed by two other safety-related location features: a low rate of crime, which 74% consider a must-have, and a low risk of natural disaster, which 68% have on their list of non-negotiables. Next is access to grocery stores, which two-thirds of homebuyers are unwilling to compromise on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-81681 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WdCK4-for-homebuyers-safety-is-1-must-have--594x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WdCK4-for-homebuyers-safety-is-1-must-have--594x1024.png 594w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WdCK4-for-homebuyers-safety-is-1-must-have--174x300.png 174w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WdCK4-for-homebuyers-safety-is-1-must-have--768x1324.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WdCK4-for-homebuyers-safety-is-1-must-have--891x1536.png 891w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WdCK4-for-homebuyers-safety-is-1-must-have--1188x2048.png 1188w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WdCK4-for-homebuyers-safety-is-1-must-have-.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The survey results in this report are from a Redfin-commissioned survey conducted by Ipsos in May 2025, fielded to more than 4,000 U.S. homeowners and renters. This report focuses on the 1,224 respondents who are planning to buy a home within the next 12 months. The results for this group of survey respondents have a credibility interval of +\/- 3.4 percentage points. The survey asked respondents the following question: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When thinking about the next home you live in, which of the following do you consider a must-have feature versus a feature you\u2019d be willing to trade off to afford a home? <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondents were asked separately about 18 features; for each one, they could choose \u201cmust have\u201d or \u201cwilling to compromise to afford a home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We asked prospective homebuyers about non-negotiables versus negotiables because it\u2019s difficult\u00a0 to afford a home in today\u2019s housing market. The median U.S. home-sale price has increased more than 40% since before the pandemic, and mortgage rates are roughly double pre-pandemic and early-pandemic days. A recent Redfin analysis found that homebuyers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/income-needed-to-afford-home-august-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">must earn $112,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to afford the median-priced U.S. home, roughly $25,000 more than the typical U.S. household earns. While affordability has started improving in some major metros, buying a home is still a reach for many Americans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPrices are starting to come down, but buyers\u2013especially first-timers\u2013are still battling with affordability,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/real-estate-agents\/katie-shook\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katie Shook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Redfin Premier agent in Phoenix. \u201cBuyers want a home that fits their practical needs: They\u2019re looking for a bedroom for every kid, space to work from home or an easy commute, things like that. Some more luxurious features, like a fully finished backyard with a pool or a recently renovated kitchen, aren\u2019t as valuable to buyers as they used to be. People might <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">want <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">those things, but they aren\u2019t willing to\u2013or can\u2019t\u2013pay more for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s worth noting that in many parts of the country, the housing market has shifted firmly in buyers\u2019 favor. Buyers may be able to negotiate down the sale price, or get concessions like a mortgage-rate buydown or closing costs, from a seller that could help them afford some nice-to-have features in addition to must-have features. \u201cSellers know it\u2019s taking longer to sell and that they can\u2019t expect multiple offers like they would have gotten a few years ago,\u201d Shook said. \u201cToday, the definition of a win is selling. So for buyers who see a home they really want, it\u2019s worth a try to negotiate with the seller.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>For House Hunters With Kids, Highly Rated Schools Are Important\u2013But Not As Important As Space<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the school year coming up, we also looked at survey respondents with kids, and whether they\u2019re willing to compromise living near highly rated schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two in five (41%) of the respondents with children living at home say they\u2019re willing to compromise on highly rated schools to afford a house, while 59% consider highly rated schools a must-have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All in all, highly rated schools fall smack in the middle in terms of must-haves for people with kids. Survey respondents with children living at home were more likely to rate features of the home itself\u2013including the number of bedrooms,, indoor space and outdoor space\u2013as must-haves than highly rated schools. They were <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">less <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">likely to say commute time, proximity to restaurants, and several neighborhood characteristics are must-haves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-81682 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/q9bcd-3-in-5-people-with-kids-say-highly-rated-schools-are-a-must-have-for-their-home-1-465x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/q9bcd-3-in-5-people-with-kids-say-highly-rated-schools-are-a-must-have-for-their-home-1-465x1024.png 465w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/q9bcd-3-in-5-people-with-kids-say-highly-rated-schools-are-a-must-have-for-their-home-1-136x300.png 136w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/q9bcd-3-in-5-people-with-kids-say-highly-rated-schools-are-a-must-have-for-their-home-1-768x1692.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/q9bcd-3-in-5-people-with-kids-say-highly-rated-schools-are-a-must-have-for-their-home-1-697x1536.png 697w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/q9bcd-3-in-5-people-with-kids-say-highly-rated-schools-are-a-must-have-for-their-home-1-930x2048.png 930w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/q9bcd-3-in-5-people-with-kids-say-highly-rated-schools-are-a-must-have-for-their-home-1-scaled.png 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal safety is the number-one must-have on homebuyers\u2019 checklists, though 22% say they\u2019re willing to compromise on it for affordability. The next-most important priorities are a low crime rate and low risk of natural disasters.\u00a0 Roughly one in five (22%) homebuyers are willing to compromise personal safety to afford a home, according to a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13153,"featured_media":81683,"comment_status":"closed","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":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","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":[20,35],"dashboard":[],"coauthors":[124],"class_list":["post-81680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing-market-news","tag-housing-affordability","tag-redfin-surveys"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One in Five House Hunters Is Willing To Compromise Personal Safety to Afford a Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Personal safety is the number-one must-have on homebuyers\u2019 checklist, though 22% say they\u2019re willing to compromise on it for affordability. 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