Green Projects AI Program Finds More Solar Installations Than Expected in U.S. A new machine learning program developed by Stanford University, DeepSolar, offers a quantitative first look at how many solar energy...
Economics Rent Growth Flat in Cities With Highest Prices Cities with the highest rents are seeing those prices flatten, per the latest single-family rental price index report from real estate data...
Economics International Pressure Creates Even Mortgage Rates In the week starting December 10, 2018, mortgage rates were even after two weeks of declines to the lowest levels since September 2018. ...
Market Data + Trends 'Vanishing' Buyer Demand in Seattle Bidding wars are down to an eight-year low nationally, and are disappearing in Seattle. The share of Redfin offers facing competition in the...
Sales Existing-Home Sales Up Monthly, Down Big Annually Existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up in November 2018 over the previous month, but had the largest annual drop since May 2011, per the...
Sales Housing Stock 'Bumping Along the Bottom' Rather than signaling significant growth, the supply of for-sale homes grew 0.4 percent annually in November 2018, following October's 2...
Design Hello, Goodbye: 2019 Design Trends In the run-up to ringing in the new year, a new report predicts the design trends that are incoming and outgoing in 2019. Spoiler alert: the...
Builders FWIW: For What It's Woonerf Defined as "living street," the Dutch term Woonerf is characterized by shared spaces for pedestrians and vehicles, slower speed limits for...
Builders Cooling Market, Growing Households and More 2019 Predictions A new end-of-year report from Redfin offers 7 predictions for the 2019 housing market including easier access to credit for homebuyers and a...
Economics Unpredictable Stock Market a Drag on Home Loan Volume According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted report, total mortgage application volume was down 5.8 percent last week...