Daily average mortgage rates are sitting at 7.4%, close to their highest level in more than two decades. High rates, combined with high home prices, have pushed home-purchase applications to their lowest level since 1995. Historically[...]
Roughly one of every eight (12.3%) homes that sold in San Francisco during the three months ending July 31 was purchased for less than the seller bought it for, up from 5% a year earlier. That’s a higher share than any other major U.S. metro[...]
Investor home purchases fell 45% from a year earlier in the second quarter, outpacing the 31% drop in overall home sales. That’s the biggest decline since 2008 with the exception of the quarter before, when they dropped 48%. The decline[...]
Homebuyers are turning to newly built single-family homes as overall inventory sits at an all-time low. New homes are most common in El Paso, TX, Omaha, NE and Raleigh, NC, and least common in California and Hawaii. Newly built homes made[...]
Nationwide, home prices are up 5% year over year–the biggest increase in 10 months–due to a severe lack of homes for sale. The median home-sale price in Miami rose 17% from a year earlier during the four weeks ending August 27, the[...]