Housing Market

Bidding Wars

Homebuyer Competition Ticked Up in February, Hitting Record High

Bidding wars are intensifying at a slower pace than they were at the start of the pandemic. Nationwide, 68.6% of home offers written by Redfin agents faced bidding wars on a seasonally adjusted basis in February—the highest level in Redfin’s records, which date back to April 2020. That’s up slightly from a revised rate of […]

This is the Most Popular Time to Search for Homes Online

House hunters are most active on Tuesday evenings, right in the middle of the workweek.  In the midst of today’s red-hot housing market, Americans are sitting in their home offices, “working” remotely and browsing Redfin for bigger, fancier home offices … right? Wrong. The most popular time of the week to search for homes on […]

Demand For Vacation Homes Drops to Lowest Level in Nearly Two Years

The vacation-home boom started fading in February, partly because of rising mortgage rates. Still, demand for second homes is 35% above pre-pandemic levels. Demand for vacation homes dropped sharply in February, with mortgage-rate locks for second homes reaching their lowest level since May 2020. Demand was still up 35% from pre-pandemic levels, but that’s significantly […]
Bidding Wars

All-Cash Homebuyers Are Four Times More Likely to Win a Bidding War

Cash is king when competing for a home, but a buyer’s odds of winning a bidding war also increase significantly by waiving the financing contingency or conducting a pre-inspection.  Prospective homebuyers who offered all cash were more than four times as likely to win a bidding war as those who didn’t in 2021, making it […]
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