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Washington is known for leaks, but now we officially have a trickle. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a big regulator of mortgages, today said it wants to make it easier for small and rural banks to make home loans. Good for them;[...]

If you’re like many buyers, you’ve kicked off 2015 by restarting your home search in full force. Our data on tours and offers in the first few weeks of the year shows a huge jump in buyers searching for affordable homes. Rock-bottom[...]

National averages are standard fare for housing market analysis, but the market-level data show widely varying conditions that can’t be captured in overall numbers.To illustrate Redfin’s expectations for the 2015 housing[...]

One consistent trend in housing is that prices fall every January. To get the industry’s earliest indication about January prices, today for the first time Redfin is releasing home price information for the current month. According to[...]

With gas prices low and consumer confidence at the highest reported level in seven years, there was a lot to be cheery about heading into the holiday home-buying season. However, positive consumer sentiment did not translate into more[...]