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Rocket Companies, Inc. reports developments across a Detroit-based homeownership platform that includes mortgage, real estate, title and personal finance businesses. Recurring updates cover Rocket Mortgage loan origination and servicing activity, quarterly financial results, funding and margin trends, and integration work following completed acquisitions within its homeownership ecosystem.
Company news also includes Redfin housing-market reports, real estate search features such as Sunscore, and product activity tied to homebuyers, homeowners and agents. Additional themes include Rocket Money, Rocket Loans and Rocket Close, along with technology, data and AI initiatives used across search, origination, servicing and client engagement.
Redfin reports that nearly 53,000 U.S. home-sale agreements fell through in March 2026, equal to 13.4% of contracts—up from 12.5% a year earlier and the highest March share aside from 2020.
Redfin attributes cancellations to a large surplus of sellers (about 600,000 more sellers than buyers), rising mortgage rates, higher prices, and broader economic and geopolitical uncertainty.
Redfin (RKT) reports U.S. home prices inched up 0.1% month-over-month in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, marking the third straight month with that increase. Prices rose 1.9% year-over-year, the slowest annual growth rate on record since 2012.
Redfin cites tepid demand driven by higher mortgage rates (rising from 6.0% to 6.4% in March) and global uncertainty, while supply of new listings continues to decline. Metro results varied widely, with San Francisco up 13% YoY and several Texas metros showing the largest monthly declines.
Redfin (powered by Rocket, NYSE:RKT) analysis finds the best national week to list a home is late April. Homes listed then are 18% more likely to sell above asking, have a 4% higher median sale price, and are 17% likelier to sell within two weeks.
Listings in late April also spend about 9% fewer days on market and face roughly 8% fewer competing homes than peak summer inventory. Local peaks vary by metro.
Redfin (powered by Rocket, NYSE:RKT) finds buyer negotiating power widened in March 2026: 38 of 49 large U.S. metros were buyer’s markets, up from 29 a year earlier. Nationally, sellers outnumbered buyers by 43.1% (about 1.99M sellers vs 1.39M buyers). Home-price gains were larger in seller’s markets (about +5%) than buyer’s markets (+2%), and the largest metro buyer’s market was Miami (+147.9% sellers).
Rocket (RKT)-linked Redfin survey finds many Americans are renovating instead of moving: 43% renovated in the last year and 33% plan to in the next year.
Roughly 65% of recent renovators stayed put rather than move; 71% of planned renovators say the same. Most spend under $20,000.
Redfin (affiliated with Rocket, ticker RKT) reports U.S. pending home sales fell 4.1% year-over-year for the four weeks ending April 12, 2026, the largest decline in over a year. Median sale price rose 2.3% to $393,059, the biggest increase in a year.
Touring activity is up just 11% since year-start versus +40% last year. Mortgage rates averaged 6.3% that week. Several large metros—Providence, Houston and Nassau County—saw double-digit pending-sales declines.
Redfin (RKT) reports San Francisco median home price rose 14.4% YoY to $1.7M in March, the largest metro increase since 2018 and the highest among 50 largest metros.
Condo prices jumped 24.4% YoY. Redfin cites an AI hiring boom, return-to-office demand and tight inventory driving competition and large over-asking bids in San Francisco.
Redfin (RKT) survey finds 36% of American workers are delaying or canceling major purchases like homes or cars due to job security concerns, while 31% have accelerated or plan to accelerate purchases.
Survey of 1,005 U.S. residents was fielded March 9-10, 2026, with credibility interval +/-5.1 points for workers.
Redfin (powered by Rocket, ticker RKT) reports that Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $170 million purchase of a waterfront estate in Indian Creek was the most expensive U.S. home sale in March and the highest ever in Miami-Dade County.
Seven of March's top 10 priciest U.S. home sales were in coastal Florida; all top 10 sold for more than $30 million.
Redfin and Glassdoor ranked the best U.S. cities for recent college graduates on April 14, 2026, using housing, jobs and quality-of-life metrics.
Washington, D.C. tops big cities with average early-career earnings of $79,857; New Orleans leads mid-sized metros with affordable starter homes at $175,000; Springfield, IL is the top small city with earnings of $59,925 and a 2 years, 3 months down-payment timeline.