Housing Market

San Francisco is the Only Major U.S. Metro Where Housing Costs Have Returned to ‘Normal’—But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Affordable

San Francisco is the only major U.S. metro area where housing costs have returned to “normal”—and Bay Area neighbors Oakland and San Jose are not far off. Redfin today published a report projecting hypothetical scenarios where U.S. housing costs will return to “normal” within the next ten years, using the mortgage payment-to-income ratio as the […]
Affordability

Homebuyers Have Been Retreating. Now Sellers Are Too.

There are an estimated 1.43 million homebuyers in the U.S. housing market—the lowest level in records dating back to 2013 aside from the start of the pandemic. That’s making sellers skittish; the number of sellers has dipped by roughly 14,000 since May, falling for the first time in two years. Still, there are 36% more […]
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