Where There is Chaos, There is Often Opportunity By Rick Sharga As we prepare to exit one of the most tumultuous years for the housing market in recent memory, there’s a lot to unpack. The market started the year off white hot, with consumers, and individual and institutional investors competing for limited inventory, driving home prices up another 15% from 2020’s already-high numbers. Housing starts were increasing to levels not
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Data Provides Greater Insight and Potential for Success for Industry Professionals By Erica LaCentra Companies in the real estate industry today are in a unique position where there is truly greater access to data than ever before. Long gone are the days of making decisions based only on anecdotal evidence, historical trends, and experience within the industry. Having the ability to pull accurate data in real time is empowering those
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Understanding Granular Attributes Crucial in Identifying Opportunities and Risks By Jason Stanley Single-family rental (SFR) is hardly a new phenomenon, but it has seen explosive growth recently. Occupancy in Q4 2021 was near 95%. According to CoreLogic’s Single-Family Rent Index, SFR has seen 13 consecutive months of record-breaking year-over-year (YoY) rent growth for all price tiers. In April 2022, the YoY SFR rent price growth was more than double what
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Raw Profits on Home Flips Jump to New High By ATTOM Staff ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released its second-quarter 2022 U.S. Home Flipping Report showing that 115,198 single-family houses and condominiums in the United States were flipped in the second quarter. Those transactions represented 8.2% of all home sales in the second quarter of 2022, or one in 12 transactions.
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Completed Foreclosures Also Decrease 5% from Last Month By ATTOM Staff ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released its July 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 30,358 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — down 4% from a month ago but up 143% from a year ago. “While it’s
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Foreclosures Rates Highest in Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio By ATTOM Staff ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released its Midyear 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 164,581 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — in the first six months of 2022. That figure is up 153% from the
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