Single women are making up a bigger share of sales. Single females comprised 18 percent of sales this year, which matches the highest share since 2011, according to the National Association of REALTORS®’ 2017 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.Single women were the second most common household buyer type, behind married couples at 65 percent.Single women tend to purchase slightly pricier homes than single men, despite earning less, according
Homeowners continue to delay moving, as the typical seller in 2017 had stayed in his or her home for 10 years before selling—a tie for the record tenure set in 2014, according to the National Association of REALTORS®’ 2017 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. Homeowner tenure has steadily increased since 2009, when sellers typically lived in their home for a median of six years before selling.Economists speculate that low inventory and soari
Children in Oregon may get the most treats this Halloween. Households in the state spend the most per person on Halloween sweets, according to shopping app Ibotta, which looked at candy purchases across the U.S. the week before Halloween in 2015 and 2016. Oregonians spend a whopping $40.29 per person on candy.The app ranked the following as the top states that spend the most per person on candy: Oregon Washington New Jersey Utah California New Y
Lennar Corp. and CalAtlantic Group, two of the country’s largest residential builders are merging to form America’s largest home builder in a $9.3 billion deal. The merger will cover around 240,000 building plots or home sites in 21 states, and the combined company will have about $18 billion in market capitalization.Lennar and CalAtlantic operate in 31 of the same markets nationwide. CalAtlantic, however, will bring new markets such as Salt
From the artwork to the odor, your listing may be inadvertently giving buyers the creeps. Realtor.com® recently interviewed real estate professionals about the items that have scared off their buyers the most during showings. Here are the top five spooks. Doors with too many locks. If the doors have more than the standard two locks, your buyer may wonder if something happened on the premises to make the seller feel unsafe, says Glenn Phillips,
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Listing prices for residential homes remained near record highs in October, according to a preliminary analysis by realtor.com®. The median list price nationwide was $274,000, near the $275,000 record set in June.One point of relief for “market-fatigued buyers” who’ve faced low inventories for the past few years is that supplies of new listings are up slightly from a year ago, says Danielle Hale, realtor.com®’s chief economist. By the e
Where you live may be the most important determining factor when it comes to whether you survive an apocalyptic disaster. “Finding yourself in a highly populated urban center, competing with violent crowds for dwindling resources, will usually not end well. If the scarcity doesn’t get you, the resulting chaos certainly will,” Richard Duarte, a personal injury attorney in Miami and author of Surviving Doomsday, told realtor.com®. “On the
In a sign that tight inventory may be loosening, 54 percent of U.S. housing markets saw an uptick in the annual rate of vacant properties in the third quarter of this year, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ 2017 U.S. Residential Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report. Nearly 1.4 million homes—or 1.58 percent of all residential properties—were vacant at the end of the third quarter. That’s down slightly from a rate of 1.63 percent
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