Real Estate Markets & Economy
Construction costs remain high. But one of the biggest headaches for builders — obtaining lumber at a steady price — may be normalizing
The past 2 years in real estate were like a party that just kept going. Here's how to navigate what's next
Shares in Opendoor, Offerpad and Redfin all just hit all-time low prices. The milestones come after months of declines for companies across the real estate space
Tour requests to Redfin agents fell 7% and mortgage applications declined 13% during the week ending Oct. 1. 'Mortgage rates well over 6% are spooking homebuyers,' Redfin says
Real estate hiring bucked seasonal expectations for September, reflecting steady payrolls despite a weakening sales environment, according to new data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Opinion
Like the rise and fall of Peloton, which announced 500 layoffs Thursday, America's geographic reshuffling has ended with high interest rates further squelching demand, Brad Inman writes
Some cities have seen work-from-home policies persist well beyond the pandemic's first year. See the places most transformed by remote work, according to the Economic Innovation Group
Coldwell Banker Warburg President Frederick Warburg Peters coined the term to describe a phenomenon where 1 home trades hands briskly while a similar property nearby languishes
The housing market's summer rush may have lessened the impact of a deep drop in demand, according to new data from Attom. But what will happen in the historically slow months of fall?
After hitting 2022 highs last week, a weak hiring report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been helping to bring mortgage rates back down
Mortgage applications were more likely to be denied by lenders or withdrawn by homebuyers in census tracts where a higher share of buildings was at risk of future flooding
August numbers show spending on new single-family homes dropped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $436B, a 2.9% fall from July, according to US Census Bureau data released Monday
The home that sold down the street a few weeks ago might not be a good guide for how to price yours, according to new data from Redfin
Lumber futures have fallen back to where they were before the pandemic ignited a boom in housing and stretched supply chains to the limit, according to data compiled by Nasdaq
From a panel of 107 experts surveyed by Zillow, a majority agreed that rising mortgage rates are driving down competition among buyers, which will eventually result in a buyers' market
A buyer looking at $500,000 houses in July would have seen their potential monthly payment fall by $177 in August, then rise by $328 since, according to a new analysis by Redfin
It's still expensive to buy a home in nearly every part of the country. But for most buyers since the start of July, things didn't get worse, new data shows