Posted from: http://www.zillow.com/blog/more-fixer-uppers-for-sale-207293/
Rising home prices and tough buyer competition may be giving sellers more flexibility to list their home for sale “as-is” without needing to fix it up. A new Zillow analysis shows there are 12 percent more fixer-uppers for sale now than five years ago.
Zillow identified the number of fixer-upper homes listed for sale beginning in 2011 and ending in 2015, and compared them to overall for-sale inventory trends.
To identify fixer-uppers, Zillow mined historical listing descriptions…