Priced Out? A Condo or Townhome Could Be Your Way In.

Home prices have plenty of buyers, especially first-time buyers, wondering if anything on the market actually fits their budget. The instinct is to keep waiting, keep saving, or keep searching for a single-family home that may not show up anytime soon. But narrowing the search to single-family homes

More Homes, Better Prices: A Buyer’s Summer

Buying a home over the past few years has meant fighting two problems at once: prices that kept climbing and too few homes to choose from. Both of those pressures are easing this summer. National data from Realtor.com shows sellers are pricing more realistically and more homes are hitting the market

The 1 Factor That Explains Everything Happening with Home Prices Right Now

Home prices are cooling off. That's the headline, and nationally, it's true. But zoom in on individual markets, and the picture looks nothing like the national average suggests. Some areas are still seeing solid price growth. Others have gone flat. A few have dipped slightly negative. The national n

Is It Still a Seller's Market? Here's What the Data Says.

A few years ago, sellers held nearly all the leverage in most housing markets. Buyers were offering well over asking price and waiving inspections just to get a shot at a home. In many parts of the country, that particular moment has passed. Nationally, more metro areas are shifting toward a more ba