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Typical American Home Buyer Now Submits Two Offers Before Ever Getting a Signed Contract, as Fresh Data Shows Most Homes Are Still Fielding Multiple Bids
The typical American home buyer now submits two separate offers before finally getting a contract accepted, and the properties they’re bidding on are fielding an average of 2.2 offers apiece, […]
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Home Appraisals Are Still Coming in Under Contract Price Often Enough That Buyers and Sellers Are Splitting the Difference Just to Keep Their Deals From Collapsing
About 10% of home appraisals now come in below the agreed-upon contract price, according to industry data reviewed by HomeLight, and when that happens, the deal doesn’t automatically fall apart. […]
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Routine Home Repair Permit Filed Under Donna Kelce’s Name Turned Into an Internet Joke That Even Her Own Son Jason Could Not Resist Joining
A routine permit filing for nine replacement windows and six replacement doors at Donna Kelce’s Orlando condo turned into one of the biggest internet jokes of the year, and even […]
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Real Estate Agents Say a Rising Number of House Hunters Now Show up to Open Houses With a Professional Inspector in Tow Before Ever Making an Offer
A growing number of house hunters are no longer waiting for a signed contract to bring in a professional. Instead, they are showing up to open houses and early showings […]
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Families Who Make Well Above the Median Household Income Are Still Getting Outbid on Starter Homes, and the Math Behind Why Is Genuinely Hard to Watch Unfold
A family earning $106,800 a year, the national median household income as of the first quarter of 2026, would still need to hand over roughly a third of that income […]
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New Home Sales Data Has Confirmed What Builders Have Been Quietly Admitting for Months, That the Smallest and Cheapest Homes Are the Only Ones Actually Still Selling
New home sales fell 10.5% in July from the month before, dropping to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 607,000 homes, according to the Census Bureau’s July 2026 New Residential […]
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Adjustable Rate Mortgages Are Quietly Making a Comeback as Buyers Try Almost Anything They Can Think of to Make the Monthly Payment Finally Pencil Out
The share of homebuyers choosing adjustable-rate mortgages has climbed to 8.0% of all mortgage applications, the highest level in five weeks, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly survey. The […]
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Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage That Once Guided Ships Through a Treacherous Coastline Is for Sale for the First Time in Decades, and the Buyer Inherits the Actual Light Tower
Getting to this house requires a boat. Smith Point Lighthouse sits roughly 2.5 miles offshore in the Potomac River near Reedville, Virginia, and the only way in is a marina […]
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Retired Firehouse With Its Original Brass Pole Still Bolted to the Ceiling Has Been Converted Into a Private Residence, and the Listing Leans Into Every Bit of the History
The garage doors still swing open the way they did for the trucks. Above them, embossed in the concrete, “Engine No. 44” marks a building that spent half a century […]
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A Yorkshire Couple Bought the Worst House on Their Street for £135,000, and Their Finished Renovation Sold for Nearly Triple That Price
Kelsey was 19 and Brad was 21 when they bought a corner house in South Yorkshire that had sat empty for years, its walls streaked with mold and its back […]