Home affordability improved as mortgage rates dipped, bringing the monthly mortgage payment on a typical single-family home with a 20 percent down payment to $2,137 — a 5.5 percent decrease from Q2, though still up 2.4 percent year over year. Continue reading
Anywhere Real Estate, Redfin, eXp World Holdings and seven more of the nation’s largest real estate companies are set to release quarterly data on Thursday that could illuminate their fitness in 2025. Continue reading
Zillow tallied $581 million in revenue between July and September, according to Q3 earnings released Wednesday. Revenue from the portal’s mortgage business hit $39 million, a 63 percent increase from 2023. Continue reading
Appetite for bonds wanes as investors pile into the stock market and assess whether Donald Trump’s return to the White House will fuel more government borrowing and reignite inflation. Continue reading
Renter households increased by 2.7 percent year-over-year in the third quarter to a record 45.6 million, a rate three times higher than the 0.9 percent uptick in homeowner households, according to a new Redfin analysis. Continue reading
Realtor.com launched the latest chapter of its eight-month buyer agency campaign on Tuesday with a passionate open letter from CEO Damian Eales. In the letter, Eales urged local, state and federal legislators to use their upcoming terms to meaningfully… Continue reading
Windermere’s Principal Economist Jeff Tucker looks at how recent events have impacted the October jobs report and what it means for the economy. Continue reading
Across 10 states, ballot measures ask voters to weigh in on changes to property taxes, veterans benefits and more. One even considers whether or not to abolish property taxes altogether. Continue reading
Thirty-eight percent of early voters said housing affordability influenced their presidential vote. Harris voters (43 percent) were more likely to care about housing than Trump voters (29 percent), Redfin said. Continue reading
CoStar Group inked a deal with a longtime tenant of its new Arlington HQ, which leased 13 of the building’s 31 floors. The tenant agreed to downsize to two floors, giving CoStar enough space for the 500 employees moving to the new HQ. Continue reading