What's Offered in the Buyer and Seller Insights Report?

Chapters include:

  • Buyers Use All-Cash, Creative Tactics to Secure Home Purchase
  • Home Price, Age, and Condition Most Likely to Be Compromised
  • Cost Concerns and Feeling Rushed Top List of Buyer Regrets
  • Masks, Vaccines, and Politics Drive Pandemic Relocations
  • Over One in Five Bought a Home Sight-Unseen
  • Sellers Make Quick Decision to List Based on Rising Prices
  • Many Sellers List Higher Than Expected, Receive Unusual Gifts

people surveyed who bought or sold over the past 12 months 1,620

local markets studied 10

HomeLight’s 2022 Homebuyer and Seller Insights Survey was fielded between January 5-January 27, 2022, through an online poll of 1,620 members of the US population who bought or sold a home in the past 12 months. HomeLight partnered with a third-party research panel to provide survey respondents.


Get a sneak peek into some of the key data insights for our 2022 Buyer and Seller Insights Report, including the top buyer priorities, where compromises were made, and how high prices have encouraged some sellers to cash out.


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