Monthly housing market data is now available sooner New metrics—including home purchase cancellations, price drops, financing trends, and luxury and starter home data—are now available for direct download Seasonally adjusted data is now the default, helping remove noise and reveal underlying trends We’ve launched a new and improved Redfin Data Center to give you faster […]
Introducing the New & Improved Redfin Data Center Read More »
Investor activity is sluggish on a national level, with purchases rising just 2%—but it varies widely from metro to metro. In Seattle, investor purchases jumped 37% year over year in the fourth quarter—the biggest gain among the metros Redfin analyzed. Orlando posted the biggest decline, down 16%. U.S. investors bought more single-family homes, and waded
For Real Estate Investors, the West Coast Is Hot and Florida Is Not Read More »
U.S. investor activity was sluggish in the third quarter, with investor home purchases up 1% from a year earlier and market share rising marginally. Investor purchases are fairly flat because it’s harder to make a profit as a flipper or a landlord than it used to be; the share of investor-owned homes selling at a
Investor Activity Is Muted, With Home Purchases Up 1% and Market Share Holding Steady Read More »
In the second quarter, investor purchases of U.S. homes fell to their lowest springtime level since 2020. The decline was especially big for condos. But investor market share held steady from a year earlier, signaling that declining investor activity reflects the overall housing-market slowdown. U.S. real estate investors purchased roughly 52,000 homes in the second
Investor purchases of U.S. homes rose 2% year over year in the first quarter. Investor activity has been fairly stable for the past two years, after the wild up-and-down swings of the pandemic era. Investor purchases of condos fell 3% year over year to the lowest level in 10 years, aside from Q2 2020.
