Buying
Offer strategy, inspections, appraisals, financing, and neighborhood selection for Bay Area buyers.
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JPMorgan Chase plots $750B housing push to fund 1M affordable units
JPMorgan Chase plans to deploy more than $750 billion for housing through 2035, including financing for 1 million affordable units and help for 500,000 buyers to purchase homes.
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Elite International Realty expands crypto real estate services
The partnership enhances streamlines buyers’ process for converting cryptocurrency into U.S. dollars for real estate transactions.
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New Home Sales Rebound in June but Fall Short Year over Year
New home sales picked up slightly in June from an upwardly-revised but still rather weak May readout. The seasonally adjusted annual pace of new home sales reached 628,000, up 1.6% month over month but down 5.6% year over year. The market remains sluggish, with months of supply reaching 9.4–firmly in buyers’ territory.
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A Dream Home, a Starter Budget, and 5 Million Views
The dream was a mansion. The budget was a starter home. My first video to ever go viral turned into a conversation about the gap between the two, and 2,300 comments showed me how many people are living in that gap right now.
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Market Clock 2026 Q2: 100 Metros and the Most Buyer-Friendly Spring in Years
The Realtor.com® Market Clock® tool now tracks buyer-seller leverage across the nation’s 100 largest metros. In Q2 2026, the clock reads 3 o’clock nationally — balanced, loosening toward buyers — and 70% of markets either favor buyers outright or are trending that way, the most buyer-friendly spring since the data began in 2018. Nineteen metros…
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Rates Are Steady, but Bay Area Buyers Are Still Cautious
Rates are holding, but uncertainty has Bay Area buyers moving carefully. In my experience since 1998, true buyer’s markets like this one do not come around often, and they do not last.
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Redfin Partners With The Weather Company to Bring Weather Data to Every Home Listing
Homebuyers can now view temperature, precipitation, snowfall, humidity and UV index information on all for-sale listings When you’re buying a home, it’s about more than bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage. You also want to know what everyday life will actually feel like—from snowy winters and rainy springs to sunny afternoons and humid summers. That’s why…
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What Today’s Mortgage Rates Mean for Fremont Buyers
Rate movements hit Fremont differently than the national average suggests — because Fremont price points multiply every fraction of a percent. A local translation of the rate story.






