How $15k in Down Payment Assistance Could Help Millions Achieve Homeownership
More than 25% of U.S. renters could afford their typical local monthly mortgage payment -- if they had enough savings for a minimal down payment.
Renting
Winter Hasn’t Cooled the Red-Hot Housing Market (January 2021 Market Report)
Annual growth in home values was faster in January than at any point since the years preceding the 2008 Great Recession.
2020 Urban/Suburban Report: How Housing in Cities and Suburbs Both Thrived in an Extraordinary Year
Despite some early pandemic-era narratives, suburban housing markets did not disproportionately strengthen in 2020 at the expense of urban areas.
Why Housing Choice Voucher Availability & Value Don’t Match Demand or Market Growth
A chronic shortage of federal Housing Choice Vouchers is putting renter households already hard-hit by the pandemic in an even more vulnerable position.
Home Value Growth Breaks New Records in Face of Unrelenting Demand (December 2020 Market Report)
Home values in Q4 rose 3.2% over the previous quarter, the largest quarterly increase since at least 1996 (when Zillow records begin).
Despite New Aid, 3M+ U.S. Renters Facing COVID-19 Unemployment Bear Extreme Housing Cost Burdens
Even with additional assistance, renters reliant on unemployment insurance income face substantial rent burdens and are worse off now than in the spring.
Still-Employed Renters Realized Modest Gains in Affordability through Pandemic
Rents got modestly more affordable over the past few years for those renters that held on to their jobs throughout the ongoing pandemic.
Methodology: Nowcasting Rent Affordability During the Pandemic
Or new statistical models ‘nowcast’ rent affordability using modern statistical approaches, standard government data and Zillow’s big data capabilities.
2020 Housing Data in Review: How Housing Went from Solid, to Stuck, to Soaring in 12 Months
The global pandemic weighed heavy on 2020, but the for-sale residential real estate market was a source of optimism and opportunity for many.
A Raise Will Help Minimum Wage-Earning Renters, But Their Burden Remains Very High
In 37 of 45 large metro areas analyzed, an increase in minimum wages will lower rent burdens for minimum-wage-earners by at least 1 percentage point.
