Tag Archives: Home Flipping

A new report looks at the many factors that go into renovating homes and the headwinds that home flippers face, especially while looking for funding.

Is home flipping turning out to be a risky undertaking in the midst of a slowdown in the housing market? Here’s what a report had to say.  

Even in a tough seller's market, there's money to be made in flipping houses. A new report looks at where renovation dollars provide the best ROI.

Zillow made its name as an online real estate database, helping homebuyers shop for houses whether they were right down the street or on the other side of the country. Recently, however, Zillow announced it had plans to branch out ...

CoreLogic data reveals that the nationwide ration of flipped properties to home sales hit 6.2 percent during Q1 2018, matching the post-crash high reached in Q1 2013. However, even as the number of investors flipping homes is increasing, so too ...

Lack of housing inventory and rising home prices prove to be favorable conditions for flippers.

ATTOM Data Solutions, the new parent company of RealtyTrac, released its Q2 2016 U.S. Home Flipping Report which reported home flipping at a six-year high.

Experts discuss the fixing and flipping market and the direction the market may turn when low inventory pressures home prices.

Largely due to a combination of increasing home prices and a lack of suitable inventory, flipping edged out renting as the preferred strategy in Q3 2015 for the fourth consecutive quarter, since Auction.com began tracking investor intent data. Overall in Q3, 53.7 percent of investors said they preferred flipping, while 45.1 percent said they intended to rent the properties they purchased.

A nationwide survey conducted by Auction.com, a leading online real estate marketplace, showed a continuation in January of a trend seen in the fourth quarter of 2014 – that of investors' preference to flip houses rather than rent them out. Even as the demand for rental housing has increased in most markets, investors continue to prefer to flip houses due to a recent combination of price appreciation and decreased inventory. About 50.2 percent of investors surveyed in January said they preferred to flip the homes they purchased,