Trends San Jose's 'Critical, Modest' Step Toward Affordability City leaders in San Jose, Calif. are loosening restrictions for homeowners who want to build additional housing units on their property as a...
Market Data + Trends First Quarter 2018 Saw Largest Mortgage Burden Increase for Buyers Since Great Recession Mortgage payments are going up in the U.S. as home values continue to surge and mortgage rates have gone up more than 50 basis points since...
Market Data + Trends The Best Cities for 'Worktirement' "Worktirement" is the moniker given to retirees working part-time jobs. The best cities for worktirees are typically smaller and warmer. ...
Trends Help Wanted: Communities Willing to Pay Workers to Move in Cities and states across the U.S. are offering to pay people to move in and take vacant jobs as the unemployment rate dwindles down....
Market Data + Trends Younger Boomer Buying Patterns Homebuyers aged 53 to 62 years, Younger Boomers, accounted for 18 percent of all buyers in 2017, and were the most likely to purchase a...
Trends Denver's Unaffordability Is Driving Out Residents For the first time, Denver had a "net outflow" of residents in the first quarter of this year. Redfin data show that 20 percent of users in...
Energy Efficiency Toward Zero Net Energy Communities A new study, prompted by California's new building energy code, finds that community solar systems may be a more effective and less costly...
Land Planning Local Zoning 'Not What It Used to Be' Over the past 30 years, many communities have repurposed zoning laws into increasingly prohibitive measures on new home development,...
Market Data + Trends Millennials Gaining Financial Independence Commercial real estate analytics firm CoStar Group forecasts more Millennials will be moving out of their parents' homes. The latest data...
Market Data + Trends Refinances Drove Up Mortgage Applications Last Week Last week's mortgage application volume was up 5.1 percent from the week before, boosted by refinance loan applications, per the Mortgage...