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Home prices grew 0.5% in April, the sixth consecutive month of similar increases. Elevated mortgage rates are curbing homebuyer demand, but prices continue to tick up because there aren’t enough homes for sale. U.S. home prices[...]

Prices keep rising because this spring’s inventory is lower than usual. The sliver of good news for buyers is that mortgage rates have declined slightly. The median U.S. home-sale price hit a record $387,600 during the four weeks[...]

Investor home purchases are rising—albeit slightly—for the first time in almost two years. Real estate investors bought roughly 44,000 U.S. homes in the first quarter of 2024, up 0.5% from a year earlier—the first increase[...]

Nine of the 10 metros facing the steepest drops in asking rents are in the Sun Belt. The exception is Seattle, where rents fell 7% year over year in April—the biggest decline among the metros Redfin analyzed. Nationwide, the median asking[...]

Roughly 1 in 5 new mortgages went to low-income homebuyers in 2023, down from 23% in 2020. Meanwhile, high-income buyers have gained share because they’re more prepared to weather the storm of high home prices and mortgage[...]