30-Minute Movers: How Home Shoppers Enable (or Eliminate) a Half-Hour Commute
Commute times and working remotely are top of mind for those making decisions about where to live and what home to buy or rent.
30-Minute Movers: How Home Shoppers Enable (or Eliminate) a Half-Hour Commute
Commute times and working remotely are top of mind for those making decisions about where to live and what home to buy or rent.
To Afford Homes, Buyers Work More and Give Up Entertainment and Vacations
Buying a home is expensive – often the single priciest transaction most of us ever undertake. So it should come as little surprise that a majority of home buyers report making some kind of financial sacrifice to afford their homes – with younger buyers, first-time buyers and/or parents more likely to give up something.
How Debt Makes Getting a Home Harder
A person’s debt load has a tremendous impact on their housing options, including the type of home someone can afford to rent or buy, their timeline for buying a home and their ability to afford an adequate down payment.
Call Versus Click: The Pros and Cons of Phone and Web Surveys
There are variety of ways to collect survey data, including phone, Web and mail, each with pros and cons that can ultimately impact the quality of the data gathered – for better and worse.
What Zillow Has Learned Creating Web Surveys
Ultimately, the purpose of survey research is to understand preferences, decisions or behavior when no objective data exists. But care is needed. There are right ways and wrong ways to field and analyze survey data.
Zillow Group 2019 Consumer Housing Trends Report Survey Methodology
Zillow Group partnered with independent market research and data analytics firm YouGov® to conduct a nationally representative, online quantitative survey.
Young adults and people who live in coastal metros are the most likely to anticipate their lives will be affected by climate change. And more than half of people ages 18 to 34 could get behind anything but raising taxes to relocate at-risk communities – although they favored that option more than other age groups.
Parents Buying Homes: Long on Wish Lists and Breaking the Budget
The home-shopping process for buyers with children who are under 18 and living at home is more arduous: They are more likely to see an offer or mortgage financing fall through, and they’re more likely to go over budget.
Unexpected Repairs and Maintenance Top the List of Regrets for Homeowners
Only 8% of homeowners wish they were renting instead, but homeowners do have regrets – most notably the curse of unexpected repairs.
Older First-Time Home Buyers Have Lower Incomes, More Likely to Pay With Cash
About a third of first-timer buyers are 40 and older. Some may have been financially able to purchase a home but continued renting for lifestyle reasons, while others could have been waiting until they saved enough for a down payment.
