Housing Market News

In Detroit, a Family Needs to Earn $27,000 to Afford the Typical Home. In San Francisco, It’s More Than $265,000.
In San Francisco, a family needs to earn more than $265,000 to afford a median-priced home. See how other metros stack up.
Prices for the Most Affordable U.S. Homes Up 9% in June
But in San Jose and Orange County, two of the most expensive markets in the U.S., prices for the most affordable homes are falling.
One in 10 Millennial Homebuyers Say They’ll Rely on Parents for Mortgage Help, Down From 17% Last Year
In only eight months, millennial homebuyers plan to rely less on their family to afford their mortgage
Here’s How Many Affordable Homes Could Be Purchased For $238 Million–The Price of Most Expensive U.S. Home Ever Sold
A New York City penthouse broke records selling for $238M, which is equivalent to purchasing just about every single affordable house on the market in Deltona, Fl, or half of all homes on the market.
It’s Not All About Demand: Home Prices are Sky-High Where It’s Most Difficult and Most Expensive to Acquire and Develop Land
In expensive coastal metros like San Jose, the value of land accounts for more than half of the typical home’s value, far more than it does in inland areas.
Here are the Most (And Least) Affordable Metros for Getting Married and Buying a Home in the Same Year
If you’re torn between spending your wedding budget on a party or a down payment, our data compares the national average wedding cost with the median home list price and average down payments.
In Atlanta, Nearly Half of Homes For Sale Are Affordable on the Nation’s Median Income. In San Francisco? Less Than 1%.
Redfin’s new affordability tool allows users to visualize and compare housing affordability on different incomes and in different parts of the country. In the Atlanta
In Microsoft’s Hometown of Redmond, WA, Just 22% of Homes Are Affordable to Its Own Engineers—The Company’s Affordable Housing Pledge Could Help Change That
Microsoft’s $500 million commitment to affordable housing could help ease the Seattle area’s affordability crisis and make way for more diverse communities. When Microsoft announced
Football stadiums are expensive — what does that mean for affordable housing?
Super Bowl Sunday is almost here. If you are from Boston or Los Angeles, you may be psyched to see your city compete, and if
St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Columbus Are the Most Affordable Areas for Millennial Homebuyers
In some coastal areas, only a small portion of homes are affordable to the typical millennial—but in certain inland cities, nearly 90 percent of the
As the Number of Homes For Sale Increases, Fewer Homes are Affordable to Middle Class Buyers
Although the number of homes for sale is increasing rapidly in some markets, the number of affordable homes for sale is falling. We have written
A Typical Boston Homebuyer’s Monthly Housing Costs Jumped $225 Thanks to Mortgage Rate Hikes
Similar increases are common in many other markets, leading buyers to ask: “Should I wait and see if prices fall or buy before mortgage rates