Explore the numbers behind U.S. home prices, homeownership, and the cost of owning a home.
A $200,000 home once represented a substantial purchase in many American housing markets. Today, buyers in numerous cities would be pleased to find a reasonably maintained…
Americans paid an average of $2,044 per month on existing mortgages in Q2 2026, according to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) data. Actual payments vary considerably.…
A three-bedroom house with a modest kitchen, one bathroom, and a backyard used to satisfy plenty of American families. Extra bedrooms were…
Home sellers are increasingly discovering that finding a buyer sometimes requires offering a little something extra. During the three months ending August…
We all remember when negotiating with a home builder was almost as routine as discussing the floor plan. Buyers asked about discounts,…
Buying your first home used to be something Americans expected to do in their late 20s or early 30s. Today, reaching that…
Finding someone willing to buy your house and actually receiving the money are two very different milestones. A property might attract an…
After spending years discussing offers across kitchen tables, we learned that sellers liked certainty almost as much as a good price. That…
Not long ago, sellers in some housing markets could put an ambitious price on a home and wait for buyers to compete…
We’ve seen buyers worry about everything inside a house, including an aging furnace, a suspicious crack in the basement wall, and roof…
My childhood home was not the sort of place anyone would have described as a trophy property. It was practical, ordinary, and…
