Housing Market
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January 18, 2024
2024 is shaping up to be more active than 2023 for homebuyers and sellers, with mortgage applications and new listings rising. But Redfin economists believe demand and listings would be rising more if not for harsher-than-usual winter weather. Homebuyers and sellers are gradually becoming more active as the calendar flips further into 2024. Mortgage-purchase applications […]
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 […]
