Housing Market
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January 17, 2024
26% of adult Gen Zers owned a home in 2023, little changed from 2022. Meanwhile, the homeownership rate for millennials rose to 55% from 52%, and the rate for Gen X climbed to 72% from 70%. Still, most adult Gen Zers are tracking ahead of where their parents were at the same age. That’s likely […]
January 16, 2024
Empty-nest baby boomers own 28% of the nation’s large homes, while millennials with kids own just 14%. Empty nesters take up a lot of large homes because affordability was better when they were young, and there’s no financial incentive to sell now: Most boomers own their homes free and clear, and most who have a […]
January 12, 2024
Most homeowners with mortgages have a rate below today’s average, prompting many to stay put. But the share of homeowners with relatively low rates has fallen from its record high because some have given up on waiting to move until rates nosedive, and everyone who has purchased a home in the last year has done […]
January 11, 2024
As mortgage rates hold steady in the 6% range and new listings tick up, mortgage-purchase applications and Redfin home tours are rising. Redfin agents report that as the new year kicks off, more sellers are listing and more buyers are going on tours and applying for mortgages as rates remain in the mid-6% range, down […]
January 8, 2024
Rising supply has led to rising vacancies, motivating landlords to lower asking rents, which fell 1% from a year earlier. Rents dropped in the South and the West, but continued climbing in the Midwest and Northeast. The median U.S. asking rent fell 0.8% year over year in December to $1,964. That’s the third consecutive decline, […]
