ATTOM released its first-quarter 2022 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report showing 1.4 million residential properties throughout the U.S. are vacant. Although foreclosures continue to rise, overall vacancy rates have decreased in 38 states from Q1 of 2021 to Q1 ...
Read More »Owning More Affordable Than Renting in Most Metros
Renting remains more financially viable in populous cities, whereas home ownership is found to be more affordable in rural areas.
Read More »Home Sale Profit Margins Hit 10-Year High
In Q3, home sellers earned record profits, as the median U.S. home price jumped 16% to $310,500, reaching levels not seen in a decade.
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 »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.
Read More »Low-Income Zones Show ‘Potential for Economic Revival’
Research shows even the least-affluent markets benefitting from the home-price boom and the foreclosure-preventing buffer it has created.
Read More »Home Affordability Declines in Q2
The housing boom rolls onward, and more are being shut out of the opportunity to get into a new home with wages not keeping up with the spike in home prices.
Read More »Finding Opportunity in Opportunity Zones
The national housing boom spurred an uptick in home prices in two-thirds of Congressionally-mandated Opportunity Zones.
Read More »Q1 Home Sellers Net Profit of $70K+
Home sellers saw their profits decline slightly in the first quarter of 2021, but saw year-over-year gains nationwide.
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