As housing affordability issues rise across the biggest U.S. markets, new data suggests many renters who make the transition to first-time buying could save on monthly payments, according to the Realtor.com® Monthly Rental Report released today. In January, the monthly cost of ...

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Purchasing a home in a rapidly appreciating and hypercompetitive housing market can feel like winning the lottery. But a new Zillow survey finds even those who are successful often make compromises and can suffer from buyer’s remorse. Current and aspiring ...

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Homie, a disruptive real estate company changing the way homes are bought and sold, just released the results of a new nationwide survey conducted by The Harris Poll, that sheds light on consumer perspectives on the current real estate market and ...

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Despite double-digit increases in home prices and a record low number of homes for sale, buying is becoming more affordable in a growing number of the nation’s largest cities, according to a new buy versus rent analysis released by realtor.com®.  The analysis, which ...

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Nearly two thirds (63%) of people who bought a home last year made an offer on a property that they hadn’t seen in person, the highest share since at least 2015. That’s up from 32% a year earlier, and 45% ...

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A number of the homebuying characteristics of younger millennials are replicating the buying desires of those in the silent generation. This is according to the latest study from the National Association of Realtors®, the 2020 Home Buyer and Seller Generational ...

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Home-buying demand took another step towards recovery, gaining strength for the third week in a row, according to Redfin’s latest weekly report. After plummeting as much as 34% in March, home-buying is now down only 15% from pre-coronavirus pandemic levels ...

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Nearly half of all Americans financed their home purchases with down payments of less than 20% last year, according to a new analysis by Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. As the coronavirus pandemic sends shockwaves through the U.S. ...

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  Generation Z, 18- to 24-year-olds who are entering the age bracket for first-time homebuying, is the first generation in American history with a preference for buying homes in culturally diverse neighborhoods, according to a recent Homes.com survey. Polling more than 1,000 young adults in ...

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ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, has released an analysis that shows that nearly one in 10 homes sold so far in 2018 by the nation’s two leading iBuyers — Opendoor and Offerpad — were purchased ...

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