Housing Market
All Reports
April 2, 2019
Big, old houses lost the least value in the Great Recession As we near the end of a decade that will be remembered for a strong resurgence in the housing market, some economists (including Robert Shiller, who famously predicted the bursting of the 2000s housing bubble) believe a recession may be around the corner. The […]
March 29, 2019
In Philadelphia, buyers this winter found homes 4 weeks faster than last year; 2 weeks faster in Washington, D.C. Buyers in Atlanta toured 7 fewer homes than a year ago; in Phoenix they saw 4 fewer homes In the three months ending in February, it took the typical homebuyer 73 days to close on their […]
March 28, 2019
Homes Listed on Thursday Sell Faster and for More Money Than Those Listed Any Other Day of the Week The results are in: Thursday is still the best day to list your home. Homes listed on Thursday tend to sell for more money and in less time than homes listed on other days of the […]
March 27, 2019
San Francisco, Boston, San Diego and Portland are the most competitive housing markets this month, but still only one in five homebuyers faced bidding wars—far fewer than a year earlier. Just 16 percent of offers written by Redfin agents on behalf of their home-buying customers in the first three weeks of March faced a bidding […]
March 25, 2019
A local Redfin agent said at least half of her prospective clients ask about iBuyers, which are increasingly common in Phoenix and may be contributing to ongoing price growth. Institutional buyers, known as iBuyers, are taking up a growing share of Phoenix home sales. iBuyers are companies—like RedfinNow, Zillow and Opendoor—that make instant cash offers […]
