Housing

Many Sears kit homes, which were ordered from a catalog and built by the homeowner in the early 1900s, remain standing throughout Chicagoland, evoking a sense of nostalgia for better times in the department store’s history.

Square footage has increased but income didn't get the memo.

The average size of starter homes has steadily increased. Read more about the demand builders are seeing to construct bigger homes.

Houses are less affordable today than they were 50 years ago. However, a viral TikTok video exaggerates the increase in prices.

This is not just a New York story.

All-Transactions House Price Index for the United States

Inflation and high mortgage rates are taking a bite out of homebuyer budgets, leading to fewer sales and supply gains.

On average, U.S. house prices grew by 18.7% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022. How has price growth differed by state over various timeframes?

The annual salary needed to buy a home in the U.S. ranges from $38k to $255k, depending on the metropolitan area you are looking in.

The number of people — particularly younger Americans — looking for their own apartments is squeezing an already tight housing market. Here is how rents are going up in your area.

The 2021 Consumer Housing Trends Report (CHTR) provides a snapshot of what housing consumers are thinking and doing in mid-2021. In this report, we take a deeper look at buyers (household decision makers that own their primary residence and moved to a home they purchased in the past year); In other reports, we examine homeowners, renters, and sellers more closely.

For first time homebuyers it was one of the hardest years ever to afford a house. But homeowners saw tremendous gains in housing wealth.

Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States

Home prices are the median sale price of existing homes and incomes are the median household income within markets.

while supporting data to point to is scant, the pandemic likely accelerated homebuying plans among “renters by choice.”

Zillow said Tuesday that it's winding down its homebuying unit, which competes with Opendoor.

Shares of Zillow Group Inc. took a dive Monday, after KeyBanc analyst Edward Yruma highlighted how most of the homes the real estate services company...

Note: We make frequent changes to the download paths for CSVs and ask that users who have standard code to ingest our data consider switching to the Econ Data API to avoid that code being affected by these changes.   DEFINITIONS OF HOME TYPES All Homes: Zillow defines all homes as single-family, condominium and co-operative homes with...

Three municipalities near Detroit where the majority of residents were homeowners in 2010 are now majority-renter communities, according U.S. census data analyzed by the apartment search website RENTCafé. Inkster, Pontiac and Auburn Hills all became majority-renter communities in 2019, while…

An index measuring the ratio of house price to rent has risen to its highest level since 1975. The previous peak occurred during the housing bubble.

Searches for the phrase, 'When is the housing market going to crash?' are up 2,450% over the past month.

The inventory of homes for sale is startlingly low. The pandemic is part of the reason, but it’s not the whole story.

Ben Carlson · What If Housing Prices Aren't As Expensive As They AppearWhenever the topic of inflation comes up the obvious rebuttal to the low reported number is the cost of buying a home.Ho

Mortgage rates fell to another record low last week.

From WSJ: This chart measures the percentage of home buyers by age from 2006-2018 and demonstrates the seismic impact left by the Great Recession. Questions: Do you hope to own a house someday? When do you hope to be able to buy it?  What would be a good headline to summarize the data in the chart? In what year does there appear to be the most dramatic change in the data?