Schools are sacrosanct for most house-hunters, according to a survey by realtor.com. Seventy-eight percent of buyers who currently live in their preferred school district had to compromise to get there….
…the decision to sell. NAR’s 137-page study found that 86% of all buyers purchased their homes through a real estate agent. The number was highest among younger boomers (90%) and…
…improvements and repairs by homeowners will likely exceed $340 billion by early next year, according to the LIRA study. Will noted strengthening employment conditions and rising home values are prompting…
…it.” Antoine Thompson, executive director of National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), whose mission is democracy in housing, called the suggestion in the MIT study to pool risk among…
…laud the findings. (Editor’s note: PolicyLink participates in campaigns around anti-displacement and rent control policies.) Even though the study concludes the outmigration effects of gentrification are smaller than what might…
First-time buyers accounted for 37 percent of all households that purchased homes in the past two years, according to findings in the 2017 American Housing Survey. That was a slight…
…study by a professor at the University of Oregon concluded that well-controlled shading and natural ventilation, in some cases with fan assistance “could have diminished the hours in which indoor…
ENERGY STAR® rated items claimed the top three spots in a recent survey of home buyer preferences for green features. In the study by the National Association of Home Builders…
…timber companies. A CLT study for the Pacific Northwest predicts demand of 6-to-12 million cubic feet annual for For 4+ story construction types by 2035. The global cross laminated timber…
…rates dropped further.” In a recent study, Redfin found that 92% of homeowners with a mortgage have a rate below 6%, and nearly a quarter (24%) have a rate below…
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