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Just 16 percent of offers written by Redfin agents on behalf of their home-buying customers in the first three weeks of March faced a bidding war, down from 61 percent for the first three weeks of March 2018 and ticking up slowly from the[...]

[This report was updated on March 29, 2019, the day Lyft debuted on the public markets, to reflect its IPO price of $72 per share.] San Francisco already has sky-high home prices and a lack of inventory. Public offerings from Lyft and other[...]

A local Redfin agent said at least half of her prospective clients ask about iBuyers, which are increasingly common in Phoenix and may be contributing to ongoing price growth. Institutional buyers, known as iBuyers, are taking up a[...]

And three southern metros—Louisville, Charlotte and Nashville—experienced the largest rise in low-income homeownership from 2012 to 2017. Minneapolis has the nation’s highest homeownership rate for low-income families.[...]

Here’s another sign that even as the spring housing market begins to heat up, buyers have more power than they did a year earlier: offers with home sale contingencies are on the rise. Homebuyers who are also selling their previous home[...]