Real estate forecast and other hot housing takes for 2022
The housing market may not reach the amazing depths of 2021, but Zillow economists predict it will be anything but slow next year. Expect the strong seller's market to persist, the Sun Belt to maintain its top spot as the most in-demand region, and flexible work options to continue to [...]
Report: agents faced bidding housing wars in August — lowest since 2020
In August, 58.8% of home offers written by Redfin agents faced competition—a record low for 2021, according to a new report from Redfin real estate brokerage. That's down from a revised rate of 62.1% in July and a peak of 74.3% in April. It's also slightly lower than the August 2020 bidding-war [...]
Here are 2021’s best and worst-run cities in America
Is your city back on the mend from the lockdowns? Keep reading. With local governments helping their cities transition back to normalcy as COVID-19 cases decline, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently released its 2021’s Best- & Worst-Run Cities in America To determine the effectiveness of local leadership, WalletHub compared 150 [...]
Association explores technology’s role in real estate’s ‘new normal’
Several technology experts from the National Association of Realtors gathered during the 2020 REALTORS Conference & Expo to learn more about the real estate industry's growing reliance on technology and how the integration of artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, digital transaction management, and 5G innovations will impact the buying [...]
NAR named a ‘great place to work’
The National Association of Realtors has chalked up a nice award. It said in a news release it has been identified by the global firm Great Place to Work Institute as one of the top employment destinations in America. In being named a "Great Place to Work," NAR and its roughly [...]
Redfin home offers faced bidding wars in September amid COVID
The housing market continues to be fierce even with a pandemic reports Redfin as it saw 56.3% of Redfin offers on homes face competition nationwide in September, down from a revised rate of 59.1% in August, according to a new report. While that's the first decline in at least five [...]