Housing Market News

Fast-Paced Home Sales Present New Challenges and Opportunities for People Looking to Move in 2017
Fast-paced home sales can be both a curse and a blessing for repeat buyers

People Are Still Leaving the Bay Area—But The Places They’re Moving to Have Changed
This year, less Bay Area residents are searching for homes in the Seattle Area. Instead, they are looking to more affordable tech hubs.

Homebuyers Are Bucking the Urban Revival As ‘Burbs Beckon
Last year, the typical home sold was about 4 percent further from a city center than in 2011. Prices grew almost 50 percent faster in the urban core across 30 metros than in the metro area as a whole.
Is Texas the New California?
With high-paying jobs aplenty in Austin, Dallas and Houston, incoming homebuyers can live like royalty.

Homebuyers Are Flocking to the Sun Belt, Attracted to Relatively Affordable Home Prices
The share of Redfin.com users moving away from their home metro is near its record high as 6%-plus mortgage rates and inflation cut into homebuying

Homebuyers Are Looking to Relocate to Affordable Areas–Especially in Florida–Amid High Rates, Prices
The share of Redfin.com users looking to move to a different metro area is near its record high as high rates and prices up the

Pandemic Boomtowns Phoenix and Miami Have Among the Highest Inflation Rates in the U.S.
The inflation rate in Phoenix, which attracted scores of out-of-town homebuyers during the pandemic, is more than double the inflation rate in the Bay Area,

Nevada and Arizona Lost Democrats But Gained Independents as Californians Moved In During the Pandemic
Many Americans who were pushed out of pricey California moved to Nevada or Arizona in search of more affordable housing, perhaps registering as unaffiliated with

Homebuyers Are Looking to Move to Sacramento, Miami and Other Relatively Affordable Places as High Rates, Inflation Cut Into Budgets
Surging mortgage rates and persistently high home prices are motivating many of the buyers who remain in the market to relocate to more affordable areas,

Americans Flocked to Red and Purple Counties in Key Senate-Race States During the Pandemic
Pandemic-fueled migration to red and purple counties in key states has made them somewhat less white. Increasing diversity could swing some of those purple places