Market Studies

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has released its annual report on residential mortgage lending activity and trends for 2021. The report’s data are submitted by thousands of the nation’s lending institutions under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The ...

A recent study from RE/MAX revealed that new listings dropped nearly 13% from July, and inventory declined almost 2%, after four months of consecutive, double-digit growth. Click here for the latest details.

According to a new report from Redfin, nearly one-third —or 31.4%— of U.S. home purchases were paid for with all cash in July. That’s near the eight-year high reached in February and up from 27.5% a year earlier. The share of all-cash ...

An upcoming House Financial Services Committee hearing will discuss climate change’s impact on the nation, as wildfires burned an average of 6.8 million acres annually, putting homeowners in at-risk areas in jeopardy.

ATTOM has released a Special Housing Risk Report spotlighting county-level housing markets around the United States that are more or less vulnerable to declines, based on home affordability, unemployment and other measures in Q2 of 2022. The report shows that ...

A new report from LexisNexis Risk Solutions focusing on financial transparency and inclusion has found that among Americans, those most financially at risk are the “unbanked”—or those without a traditional bank account—and that increasing financial inclusion in a responsible and ...

It’s no secret that the combination of rising home prices along with a trend of increasing interest rates have made buying the typical single-family home much more expensive, if not completely unaffordable for many.  According to Joint Center for Housing Studies ...

CoreLogic has released its monthly Loan Performance Insights Report for June 2022, showing that 2.9% of all mortgages in the U.S. were in some stage of delinquency, —30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure— representing a 1.5 ...

Brace has observed in its latest Mortgage Servicing Pulse that changes in Servicing regulations following the Great Recession, coupled with accelerated digital adoption during the Covid pandemic, have engendered a fairer, more transparent and stable mortgage ecosystem. However, the end ...

According to the latest Home Data Index Market Report from Clear Capital, home price appreciation cooled markedly in August as it’s proprietary Clear Capital Home Data Index for the second quarter of 2022 rose 7.4% over the previous quarter; on ...