Housing Market

20% of Recent Homebuyers Made an Offer Sight-Unseen, Down from 35% Late Last Year

Redfin Survey Suggests that Buyers Are Under Less Pressure to Make Hasty Bids as Competition Eases One in five recent homebuyers said they made an offer sight-unseen, according to a Redfin-commissioned survey in May of 1,463 people across 14 major markets who had bought a home in the last year. That’s down from 35 percent […]
Percent of Homes that Went Off Market in Two Weeks or Less by Metro Area

Spring’s Fastest Markets are Slowing Down this Fall

Seattle, San Jose and Denver—among the nation’s fastest housing markets—are seeing a dramatic slowdown, with as little as one in three homes going under contract within 14 days, down from two in three earlier this year. As the housing market heated up this spring there were fourteen metro areas around the country (see chart below) […]

The Share of Homes Selling Above List Price Just Dropped Below 2016 Levels

In Seattle, the Share of Homes Selling Above List Fell to 30% this Month from 50% a Year Ago In the four weeks ending on September 23, 22.9 percent of homes sold for more than their asking price, across the metros Redfin tracks. More than one-in-five sounds like a lot, but it represents a 2.6 […]
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