A Buyers Guide to a Sellers Market

When buyers outnumber sellers, it’s important to be flexible and ready to move quickly when the right home comes along. Navigating the home-buying process can be difficult in the best of times, but it can be especially stressful when you’ve planned and saved, only to see your favorite homes snatched up before you can even […]

Don’t Play, Parents: Homes With Kid-Friendly Features go Fast

Listing keywords indicating nearby parks, bonus space, and pools are some of the hottest for attracting home shopping families. Families should expect to pay more for kid-friendly features, with listings that mention “treehouse” or “garage” associated with a 2.2% sale premium. Kid-friendly homes are also selling quicker than expected. Homes with a backyard mentioned in […]

History Not Repeating: Why Today’s Housing Market Won’t Turn into 2008’s

Today’s housing fundamentals — including supply, demand and overall financial conditions — are markedly different than in 2008, and current conditions are largely sustainable. Housing supply is extremely tight — arguably the one factor most dramatically different today from the 2008-era market, when a wave of foreclosures following years of robust homebuilding pushed supply well […]

Summer 2021: Red hot housing prices

We are getting new data on just how hot real estate prices are across the country. Ben Winck and Libertina Brandt of Business Insider open up this week with expert commentary on the state of housing prices, noting that despite elevating prices there is no sign of a bubble, and prices may continue to climb for the foreseeable future due to tight supply. […]

More realtors than homes for sale???

A snapshot from the Weekly Real Estate Newsletter Stessa We open up this week with news about Nicole Friedman’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) article about how in January, there were more realtors in the US than homes for sale. By the end of January, there were 1.04 million homes for sale nationwide, down 26% year-over-year and the lowest […]