Data & Analytics

Home Affordability Worsens Again in Q4

Major Home-Ownership Expenses Consume 34% of National Average Wage by ATTOM Staff ATTOM released its fourth-quarter 2024 U.S. Home Affordability Report showing that median-priced single-family homes and condos remain less affordable in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to historical averages in 98% of counties around the nation with enough data to analyze. The latest trend continues a three-year pattern of home ownership requiring historically large portions of wages as

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Dissecting the Data

What a Year’s Worth of Investor Input Tells Us About the Future by Mitchell Zagrodnik RCN Capital and CJ Patrick Company’s Investor Sentiment Survey, which launched initially in Spring 2023, gauges real estate investors’ views on market conditions. The survey features a static set of questions that allow data to be compared and analyzed for trends over time. Periodically, more topical questions will also be included in the survey. With

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Real Estate Meets AI

Productivity Gains and Persistent Limitations by Jonas Bordo In the fall of 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT and made the power and promise of artificial intelligence (AI) a tangible reality. To date, the impact has been most profound in the area of human productivity. For example, here at Dwellsy, we precisely map every SFR and apartment address that comes into our system (hundreds of thousands per month), and what was once

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How Climate Risk Financial Modeling Will Change Real Estate Investing

A Q&A with Toni Moss and Matthew Eby In April of 2024, REI INK was an official publication of the groundbreaking AmeriCatalyst conference, GOING TO EXTREMES: The Extreme Climate, Housing and Finance Leadership Summit. The event brought together the primary constituents in US housing to discuss risks posed by climate change to the housing market. Recent hurricanes Helene and Milton have emphasized the need for astute real estate investors to

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How AI is Revolutionizing Private Lending

Embrace AI, Do Not Fear It by James Keegan Artificial Intelligence (AI) has crept into most industries in some way, and it is transforming not only the real estate industry overall, but private lending, specifically. As the private lending industry grows exponentially each year, lenders are facing a major rise in competition from new private lenders as well as banks that are actively expanding their lending offerings. From big data

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Home Seller Profit Margins Drop Slightly in Q3

Typical Margin at 56% as Median Home Price Levels Out by ATTOM Team ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, released its third-quarter 2024 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that homeowners earned a 55.6% profit margin on typical single-family home and condo sales in the United States during the third quarter. That figure was down by small amounts both quarterly and annually, dipping by

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