PropStream Announces New AVM & AI Innovations PropStream, the leading real estate data provider, announced another enhancement in its lineup of updates powered by machine learning AI—AI Property Values and AVM (Automated Valuation Model). By upgrading the Estimated Value function (AVM) powered...
Month: September 2024
Nearly Half of Prospective Home Buyers Struggle with Basic Home Costs, Worry About Home Insurance Affordability Amidst Extreme Weather
Two Bright Spots: Almost Two in Three Expect Mortgage Rates to Drop; More Than Four in Ten Say 5% Mortgage Rates Would Compel Them to Buy Nearly half of prospective home buyers are struggling to pay basic home costs and say home insurance affordability is a major factor in where they decide to...
Expert Panel Predicts Home Price Growth Will Decelerate in 2024 and 2025
Panel Also Shares Thoughts on Most Impactful Potential Policy Reforms to Boost Housing Supply Following home price growth of 6.0% in 2023, a panel of housing experts forecasts annual national home price growth of 4.7% in 2024 and 3.1% in 2025, according to the Q3 2024 Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Home...
HOUSING MARKETS IN CALIFORNIA, NEW JERSEY AND ILLINOIS STILL HAVE ELEVATED RISK OF DOWNTURNS IN SECOND QUARTER OF 2024
New York City and Chicago Areas Remain Vulnerable to Housing Issues Despite Strong Overall Markets; South Region Faces Less Exposure While West Has More ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released a Special Housing Risk Report spotlighting county-level housing...
Inventory Peaks at Highest Levels Since COVID, Latest HouseCanary Report Shows
A Seller’s Market Environment Continues to be Evident in the Housing Market, but Neutralization is on the Horizon with Inventory Levels Continuing to Rise Presumed September Interest Rate Cuts Is Anticipated to Free Buyers and Sellers from Previous Holding Patterns HouseCanary, Inc....
Falling Mortgage Rates Have Yet to Improve Home Sales, With Buyers Uncertain About NAR Settlement, Election
Pending home sales posted their biggest decline in nearly a year, despite the median U.S. housing payment dropping to its lowest level in five months Pending home sales fell 6.9% during the four weeks ending August 25, the biggest annual decline in nearly a year according to a new report from...
HOME MORTGAGE LENDING REBOUNDS NATIONWIDE WITH ACROSS-THE-BOARD GAINS IN SECOND QUARTER OF 2024
Residential Loans Surge 23 Percent Quarterly, Climbing Back to Levels from a Year Earlier; Purchase, Refinance and Home-Equity Lending All Increase; Despite Shift, Lending Activity Still Off Nearly Two-Thirds from 2021 Peak ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data,...

ZVN Properties
A Network of Consummate Professionals By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Deanna Alfredo, senior vice president of the ZVN Properties Inc.’s Single-Family Rental (SFR) division, thinks about how the company is evolving with the times and the industry, she can sum up one of the biggest changes with one...

Gatlinburg, Tennessee
“The Gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains” Attracts Visitors & Investors By Carole VanSickle Ellis Gatlinburg, Tennessee, has always been an attractive destination. Hundreds of years before the city was settled in 1806 as the settlement White Oaks Flats, Native American tribes traversed the...