A new study has found that one in 75 homes nationwide were considered zombie properties in the fourth quarter of 2021, with counts likely to rise as national foreclosure moratoria end.
Read More »Foreclosures Tick Up After Moratorium Ends
The first bits of foreclosure data are starting to come through after the federal government’s foreclosure moratorium expired July 31 and the numbers are not as bad as some experts were predicting at the start of the moratorium. ATTOM, a real-estate data company, released its Q3 2021 U.S. Foreclosure ...
Read More »Homebuyers Benefit from Closing in October
A new study has concluded that buyers who are willing to close in the month of October avoid prices well above market value.
Read More »Homes Continue to Outprice Millennial and First-Time Buyers
For the fourth consecutive month, the growth rate of housing prices in July set a record, continuing a trend of 14 successive months of gains
Read More »Home Price Gains Force Increased Affordability Concerns
Buyers may be returning to the market, but millennials and other first-time buyers continue to grapple with still-record-high prices.
Read More »Home Price Gains Outpace Q3 Wage Growth
It should be no surprise that with the sharp and continued rise in property values, that single-family home affordability continues to elude the average earner in the country. According to a report by ATTOM, a dataset covering the top 572 counties in ...
Read More »Home Flips Rebound, ROI Plummets
The market share of houses bought, remodeled, and sold by investors increased for the first time in a year, but, as one expert puts it, "their profits sure didn't."
Read More »How the Moratorium’s End is Affecting Foreclosure Activity
Housing professionals have long been anticipating the response to the July 31 expiration of the federal moratorium on foreclosures. With August numbers coming in, analysts say there has indeed been a rise in foreclosure activity, but they do not expect ...
Read More »Zombie Properties Decline in Q3
One in four U.S. homes now sit vacant, down 3.7% from Q2’s totals according to a new study.
Read More »Finding Solutions in Distress
The industry faces continued inventory shortages, rising home costs, and delays, and the answer to the problem may rest in distressed housing, according to author Nathan Cron.
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