Housing Market
All Reports
December 2, 2022
Pandemic boomtowns including Sacramento, Austin and Phoenix saw the biggest jump in delistings as prohibitively high housing costs dampened buyer demand. A record 2% of U.S. homes for sale were delisted each week on average during the 12 weeks ending Nov. 20, compared with 1.6% one year earlier. The share has come down a touch […]
December 1, 2022
Mortgage applications and Redfin’s demand index, a measure of tours and other homebuying services, are up as mortgage rates continue to come down. But pending home sales declined and the number of homes on the market increased as buyers took a break over Thanksgiving. Homebuying demand has started ticking up as mortgage rates continue their […]
November 28, 2022
Places where home prices shot up due to out-of-towners moving in with big budgets are now seeing prices rapidly decline. Home-price growth has slowed fastest in pandemic boomtowns including Austin, Phoenix and Boise as high mortgage rates and an uncertain economy deter would-be buyers. Austin’s median price per square foot was up 1.3% year over […]
November 23, 2022
Mortgage-purchase applications and Redfin’s Homebuyer Demand Index both increased as rates stayed around 6.6%, down sharply from 7% earlier this month, saving the typical buyer over $100 in monthly mortgage payments. Still, supply is piling up–posting a record annual increase–as pending sales fell the most on record. We are taking a short break from analysis […]
November 22, 2022
Investors are pumping the brakes—especially in pandemic boomtowns including Phoenix and Las Vegas—as economic uncertainty and the prospect of falling home prices raise the risk of real estate investing. Investor home purchases fell 30.2% year over year nationwide in the third quarter, the largest decline since the Great Recession aside from the second quarter of […]
