A new report finds that the continued struggle of home supply keeping up with demand has driven year-over-year increases to levels last seen in 2005.
Read More »Number of Underwater Homes Took a Dip in Q1
Double-digit home price growth has driven down negative equity, as a new report has found that just 2.6% of all mortgaged properties are underwater nationwide.
Read More »More Boomers Opting to Stay Put
A new report from CoreLogic has found that more baby boomers are choosing to stay in their homes rather than enter a tight market where their options are limited.
Read More »Delinquencies at Lowest Levels Since Pandemic Start
The national delinquency rate continues to slide, as the U.S. economic picture continues to improve across the board.
Read More »Homeowners Gained $1.5 Trillion+ in Equity
Nationwide, homeowners are seeing record profits, as home equity makes record gains in 2020 according to the latest Q4 analysis.
Read More »Examining Single-Family Rental Return on Investment
In CoreLogic’s U.S. Economic Outlook for May 2018, CoreLogic Chief Economist Dr. Frank Nothaft puts single-family rental investment under the microscope. According to CoreLogic, “one-family rental houses, either detached or attached, have grown from 11.3 million in 2006 to 15.3 ...
Read More »Ask the Economist: Why Raise Rates Now?
Ask the Economist is an ongoing series in which DS News talks with an economist about the most pressing issues facing the nation's housing industry and the economy. This installment features Frank Nothaft, SVP and Chief Economist with CoreLogic.
Read More »Household Formation Has Accelerated After Eight Years at Low Levels
The two primary drivers of household formation over time are demographic and economic factors, according to Nothaft. For example, household growth averaged about 2 percent annually from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s when baby boomers were at the prime household formation age, but household formation rates halved from 1990 until the mid-2000s when the population of those born in the 1970s, a much smaller birth cohort, reached their 20s.
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