Strategic New Hires Focused on Driving Growth Through Technology and Veteran Expertise Stronghill Capital, a small-balance commercial lender, recently announced that it launched a new residential lending division expanding its robust offerings for brokers. This announcement comes with the...
Year: 2022
Homebuyers Need $107,000 Annually to Afford the Typical U.S. Home–Up 46% From a Year Ago
Homebuyers across the country need to earn substantially more money than they did a year ago to buy a home, due to high mortgage rates and persistently high home prices A homebuyer must earn $107,281 to afford the $2,682 monthly mortgage payment on the typical U.S. home, up 45.6% from $73,668 a...
OPPORTUNITY ZONE REDEVELOPMENT AREA HOME PRICE TRENDS OUTPACE SHAKY U.S. HOUSING MARKET IN THIRD QUARTER
ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released its third-quarter 2022 report analyzing qualified low-income Opportunity Zones targeted by Congress for economic redevelopment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In this report, ATTOM looked...

Vacasa Reveals the 10 Best Places to Buy a Winter Vacation Home in 2022-23
Considering investing in a mountain view? Vacasa, North America’s leading vacation rental management platform, released its Best Places to Buy a Winter Vacation Home 2022-2023* report, ranking where prospective vacation home buyers can find snow-capped peaks and a desirable cap rate....
HOMEOWNER EQUITY KEEPS GROWING ACROSS U.S. IN THIRD QUARTER DESPITE HOUSING MARKET SLOWDOWN
Small Equity Gain Results in Nearly Half of U.S. Mortgaged Homes Now Considered Equity-Rich; Seriously Underwater Portion of Mortgages Stays Just Below 3 Percent; Seventeen Times as Many Mortgages are Equity Rich versus Seriously Underwater ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate...
Redfin Reports Demand Declines Ease as Mortgage Rates Steady Around 7%
A few measures of homebuying demand stabilized in the last week of October, a month that saw one-third fewer pending sales than a year earlier One-third fewer homes went under contract in October than last year, the largest decline since at least 2015, according to a new report from...

ZOMBIE PROPERTY COUNT TICKS UPWARD AGAIN ACROSS U.S. IN FOURTH QUARTER BUT REMAINS TINY PORTION OF HOUSING MARKET
Vacant Homes in Foreclosure Show Third Straight Quarterly Increase; Yet Zombie Properties Still Represent Just One of Every 13,000 Residential Properties Nationwide; Counts Continue Growing Since Lifting of Foreclosure Moratorium Last Year ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate...
98 of the 100 Largest U.S. Markets Saw Home Prices Decline in September From Their 2022 Peaks
Knock Buyer-Seller Market Index shows that 15 markets saw home prices fall by 10% or more from their highs set this spring, pushing more markets into buyer-market territory Reno, Nevada, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Boise, Idaho, saw home prices drop the most from their peak prices...

Brian and Dana hardy
From Success in Marketing and Interior Design to Success in Real Estate As relatively new independent business owners with HomeVestors® of America, Inc., Brian and Dana Hardy have much to look forward to if their very first sales call is any indication of future success. The Hardy’s currently live...