Real Estate

It's Harder to Find a Home Than Love When Housing Markets Are This Hot

Bidding wars, low inventory and huge price hikes have turned homebuying into an ordeal for many house hunters over the past two years.

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Think dating is difficult? Finding a house to buy is proving even harder for Americans, according to a new survey by Zillow.

More than a third of people who have recently moved said it’s tougher to purchase a home in today’s wildly competitive market than to find a spouse, results from the nationally representative survey showed.