Daryl Fairweather

Daryl Fairweather

Daryl Fairweather is the chief economist of Redfin. Her insights have been featured on 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, as well as in the New York Times and Washington Post. Prior to joining Redfin she was a senior economist at Amazon working on problems related to employee engagement and managing a team of analysts. During the housing crisis, Daryl worked as a researcher at the Boston Fed studying why homeowners entered foreclosure. Daryl received her Bachelor's of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her Ph.D. and Master's degrees in economics at the University of Chicago where she specialized in behavioral economics. Follow Daryl on Twitter @FairweatherPhD.

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What Homebuyers and Sellers Need to Know about New Real Estate Rules

If you’re looking to buy or sell a home this year, there are new rules around how buyers’ agents are paid that you need to know. Before these changes took effect last summer, the home seller would decide how much to pay both their agent and the buyer’s agent. The buyer’s agent commission would be

2024 Local Election Results Show Voters are Willing to Spend Big on Affordable Housing

The 2024 election results show that voters are willing to greenlight big spending to fund affordable housing. Across the country, cities and states approved hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds and taxes to increase housing supply. But the question remains—given existing regulatory barriers like zoning and red tape, will that money be spent where

7 Considerations for Climate-Conscious House Hunters

This was originally published to Forbes on July 30, 2024. The pros and cons of owning a home versus renting one are changing along with the climate. Aspiring homeowners are already grappling with rising mortgage rates, record-high home prices and near-record rent prices, and now they’re having to factor risk from natural disasters and skyrocketing insurance costs into their

What Homebuyers and Sellers Can Expect This Fall

This was originally published to Forbes on August 29, 2024. The housing market is poised for a dynamic shift this fall, driven by recent declines in mortgage rates and the Federal Reserve’s anticipated rate cuts. This presents challenges for both buyers and sellers who want to time the market. Here’s what homebuyers and sellers can

Here’s What a Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean For the Housing Market

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris unveiled a plan that promises to combat the housing affordability crisis, and boost supply and demand. Harris’s plan is appealing, but will take a careful balancing act to pull it off. U.S. home-sale prices have risen nearly 40% since President Biden took office, mortgage rates are just now coming down