The gap between home sellers and buyers has never been wider in Redfin’s data. Across much of the Sun Belt, buyers have leverage that would have been difficult to imagine a few years ago. Affording the house is another matter. America has entered the strongest buyer’s...
Every month, the housing industry gets another collection of national numbers. Home prices are up. Sales are down. Inventory is improving. Affordability is getting worse. Builder confidence moved. Mortgage applications changed. We report those numbers because they...
The late-summer housing market is giving buyers something they have spent much of the past several years waiting for: leverage. Whether enough buyers can afford to use it is another question. New listings rose 0.4% from the previous week during the four weeks ending...
I have lost track of how many times housing has supposedly been six months away from getting better. There is always another forecast. Rates are going to come down in the spring. Buyers will return after some future event. Inventory will improve next year. The Fed...
A new data analysis by Zillow Group (NASDAQ: Z, ZG) has determined that home sellers who opted not to place their properties on a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) lost out on more than $1 billion collectively over the past two years. Zillow’s analysis concluded that...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
