Fewer than one in 10 homes for sale last year were affordable to African American households in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver and Boston. Less than 1 percent of homes for sale (just 241 out of over 54,000) in San Francisco in 2018 were affordable to African American families. The affordability crisis is the

If you’re looking for additional living space within your home, don’t forget about your attic. Transforming your attic into a bedroom or other functional space isn’t as difficult as you may think — even if it’s unfinished. Here are a few tips to help you turn your attic into an upstairs oasis. 1. Add Flooring

Today, we launched Redfin Direct in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Redfin Direct helps homebuyers easily see and buy Redfin-listed homes without needing to contact a buyer’s agent. With Redfin Direct, buyers can make their offer more competitive by saving the seller from paying thousands in commissions to a buyer’s agent. With our Book

Charlotte and Buffalo boast 4% job growth for engineers, who need to spend less than 20% of their income on housing. It’s no secret there are plenty of jobs for software engineers in tech hubs like San Francisco and Silicon Valley. But even with job growth of roughly 3.5 percent year over year and the

The bedroom is one of the most intimate, comforting and relaxing places in your home. You spend a lot of time in the bedroom, so it’s important to keep it in the best condition possible. Over time, it might start to look worn down, outdated and in need of some repair. Here are some quick

11% of Redfin offers faced competition in September, up from August’s 8-year low of 10%, but still much cooler than last year Nationally, just 11 percent of offers written by Redfin agents on behalf of their homebuying customers faced a bidding war in September, down from 41 percent a year earlier, but up slightly from

You’ve been trying to sell your home and you did everything you thought was expected of you. You connected with a real estate agent, had professional photos taken of your house, and opened your home to numerous strangers as they paraded around your halls on private tours and open houses. But after weeks of your

The leaves are changing, the nights are getting longer, and that means that winter is on its way. If you’ve chosen to turn your home’s basement into a separate living space – whether it’s a game room, movie lounge, or man cave – you’ve probably discovered the challenges of keeping the room warm. From overly

People who bought a home the year prices bottomed out have earned a median $141,000 or 261% in home equity. Homeowners in Tacoma, Washington and Virginia Beach saw the biggest percent increases in home equity since 2012. People who purchased homes in 2012, the year prices reached their lowest point following the Great Recession, have

A smaller share—22%—would be hesitant about moving to a place where they’d be in the racial minority.  The share of homebuyers and sellers who would be hesitant about moving to an area where most residents have differing political views from their own is slowly shrinking, down to 38 percent this year from 41 percent in