Financing Where Are the Most ‘Housing-Burdened’ Americans? More than 10 percent of U.S. households are “severely housing-burdened”, spending at least half their income on housing costs. CityLabs...
Sales Homebuying Startups Continue to Grow Perch is the latest homebuying startup to pull in a surprising amount of funds from investors, bringing in $220 million in debt and equity. ...
Sales + Marketing Facebook Enters the Housing Game In order to comply with a housing discrimination settlement, Facebook is building a tool to make all housing advertisements on its site...
Sales Homebuyers Spend Less Time Searching Homebuyers this past winter spent three fewer days searching for homes and completed one less home visit than buyers in the winter of 2018. ...
Financing The Race to Refinance As mortgage rates drop, homeowners are taking advantage of refinancing in surprising numbers. Realtor.com reports that last week...
Design The Least Popular Home Features A recent report from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) found that elevators are among the least popular home features. The...
Software + Apps These 5 Cities Could Be the Next Silicon Valley Livability reports that as traditional tech hubs like San Francisco, Seattle, and New York become more expensive and tech-saturated, mid...
Financing Zillow Wants to Be Your Mortgage Lender Zillow recently rebranded Mortgage Lenders of America, which it purchased in August 2018, as Zillow Home Loans. The acquisition of the...
Financing Rising Property Taxes Hit California Metros Analysis by ValuePenguin shows that the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara region of California saw the largest increase in median property...
Labor + Trade Relations The Need for an Immigrant Workforce As immigration into the U.S. falls, builders are scrambling to pull together full workforces. Immigrants have long been a reliable source...