Urban Single-Family Homes Are Seeing the Fastest Price Growth as Buyers Return to City But Still Crave Space

– As vaccines roll out, prices of spacious city dwellings are rising 20% – The pandemic-driven bump in rural properties has peaked – Urban condos are making a comeback with sales up nearly 30% year over year Prices of urban single-family homes are rising nearly 20% year over year—faster than any other type of home—according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. But this year’s hot housing

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Atlas Real Estate and DivcoWest Form $1 Billion Joint Venture to Acquire and Renovate Single-Family Rental (SFR) Homes

The JV will acquire, renovate, and manage single-family rental (SFR) homes, marking DivcoWest’s entrance into the SFR investment market Atlas Real Estate, a full-service real estate company specializing in investment brokerage, property management and institutional acquisition, announced that it has entered into a joint venture (JV) partnership with San Francisco-based DivcoWest to invest $250 million of equity in single-family homes as rentals throughout the Western United States. The JV expects to deploy $1 billion acquiring and renovating homes

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Median Texas home price up 13.4% during first quarter of 2021

Texas Realtors releases 2021-Q1 edition of the Texas Quarterly Housing Report The median sales price of homes in Texas reached $274,300 in the first quarter this year, an increase of 13.4% over the same period last year, according to the 2021-Q1 Texas Quarterly Housing Report released today by Texas Realtors. “The demand for housing in Texas remained strong despite the winter storm in February and the pandemic,” said Marvin Jolly, chairman of Texas Realtors. “With a low supply of

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Housing Supply Shortage Intensifies, Driving Prices Up 18%

Homes sell at their fastest pace on record with nearly half off-market within one week The median home-sale price increased 18% year over year to $344,625—an all-time high—according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Below are other key housing market takeaways for more than 400 U.S. metro areas during the 4-week period ending April 18. Note that at this time last year, pandemic stay-at-home orders halted homebuying and

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East Coast and Chicago Area Face Biggest Hurdles in Housing-Related Risks Connected to Coronavirus Pandemic Impact

ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its first-quarter 2021 Special Coronavirus Report spotlighting county-level housing markets around the United States that are more or less vulnerable to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic that continues to impact the U.S. economy. The report shows that states along the East Coast, as well as Illinois, were most at risk in the first quarter of 2021 – with clusters

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Big Budgets From Out-of-Town Homebuyers Are Edging Out Locals in Popular Destinations Like Phoenix & Las Vegas

Nationwide, 31.5% of Redfin.com users looked to move to a different metro area in the first quarter, according to a new report from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. This is up from 30.3% in the fourth quarter of 2020 and 26% a year earlier, and the highest share since Redfin started tracking migration in 2017. The upswing in people moving from one area to another since the start of the

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