Real Estate Markets & Economy
Inventory can be found anywhere — real estate agents just have to get creative and put a little legwork into unearthing it
Opinion
Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner dives deeper into the timeline of events that led to the 2007 crash, comparing then and now. Here's why he speculates there's no real reason to expect a widespread, systematic decline in home prices in the foreseeable future
Commissions are still king, but more and more agents are looking for alternative revenue streams in the form of stocks and profit sharing
The Redfin CEO's latest Twitter thread reveals how far buyers are willing to go to win a home, including offering to name their child after a seller
Boise, Idaho, experienced the steepest price hikes in the country at 28.2%, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index released Tuesday
The decline follows a record month for new home sales, when they hit a 15-year high of more than 1 million in March, according to new data from the US Census Bureau
Home prices rose 13.2%, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index
The First American Real House Price Index found that home price gains wiped out affordability boost from rising household income and low mortgage rates
It's critical that the public, the residential and commercial real estate sector, and elected officials across the country understand the EB-5 Program’s benefits, the jobs it creates and saves, and the potential it has to buttress the post-COVID economic recovery
Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton and Montréal are markets of particular concern
In April, 47% of homes for sale in the US went under contract in less than a week. The squeeze is happening at various price points and in dozens of metro areas
Continuing inventory woes have hampered existing-home sales for the third consecutive month, according to a National Association of Realtors' market report released Friday
Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Washington and Montana have lowest delinquency rates in U.S.
So far, bond markets are taking the prospect of Fed tapering of monthly purchases of $40B in mortgage-backed securities and $80B in Treasuries in stride
'Potential existing-home sales' rose to an adjusted annual rate of 6.31 million in April, up 1.3% from March, according to First American Financial's Potential Home Sales Model
Opinion
The inventory shortage isn’t going to last forever. In the meantime, studying the economy, real estate market statistics and particularly the new home construction process will make you a fierce competitor in today’s market and the future
A new survey of 42 economists showed that home prices, housing starts, apartment vacancies and other factors should remain healthy for the next several years
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