December home sales fell 11 percent as prices turned in their smallest gain in over six years. Boston and San Jose both saw prices decline year over year. As predicted by CEO Glenn Kelman in early November, the housing market ended 2018 not with a bang, but a whimper. U.S. home-sale prices increased just 1.2 […]
35-44 year olds were hit hardest by the housing bust just as they reached prime first-time homebuying age Less than half of homebuyers and sellers between the ages of 35 and 44 believe that real estate is a better long-term investment than the stock market, according to a survey Redfin commissioned in December of more […]
Buyers in every part of the city get a major reprieve, but one in three South Seattle offers still face competition As the share of Redfin offers facing competition plummets to an eight-year low nationally, the Seattle metro area has seen a particularly spectacular decline in bidding wars, falling from 75 percent of all offers […]
We predict that the housing market will continue to cool into the first half of 2019. Inventory will rise back up to 2017 levels, and price growth, while likely still positive, will be the lowest we’ve seen since 2014 or possibly even 2011. Investors and house-flippers will back away from the cooling market, and real […]
Slowing price growth and a growing percentage of price drops are other signs that the regions’ real estate markets may finally be cooling. Signals are emerging that the party may be coming to an end for home sellers in San Jose and Seattle, which have been two of the hottest seller’s markets in the country […]