Inventory Jumped 40%, Home Prices Increased 5%, Sales Exceed 2023 Pace In May, both inventory and new listings grew to levels not seen since the second half of 2022. The number of homes for sale, as surveyed across 53 metro areas, also increased, rising 8.7% over April and 39.6% year over year....
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More Than 3 in 5 Home Listings Are Now ‘Stale’ As Record-High Costs Dampen Demand
More homes are sitting on the market for at least 30 days without going under contract, as homebuying demand falters in the face of high housing costs More than three in five (61.9%) homes that were on the market in May had been listed for at least 30 days without going under contract, according...
Markerr Announces the Launch of RealRent Comps for Multifamily and Single Family Rental Properties
Largest source of publicly aggregated, real-time rental comps covers 28m units and includes floor plan granularity, amenities and concessions Markerr, a leader in data and AI for real estate, announces the launch of RealRent Comps, a new product delivering unique insight into rental markets for...
CoreLogic: US Homeowners See Equity Increase to Nearly All-Time High in Q1
U.S. homeowners with a mortgage pulled in $28,000 in equity gains year over year in first quarter of 2024, the highest number since late 2022. California ($64,000), Massachusetts ($61,000) and New Jersey ($59,000) led the country for annual home equity gains in the first quarter. Los Angeles...
U.S. HOME-MORTGAGE LENDING DECLINES AGAIN IN FIRST QUARTER, NEARING LOW POINT
Residential Loans Down Another 7 Percent, to Smallest Level Since 2000; Total Lending Activity Off Almost 70 Percent in Three Years; Purchase, Refinance and Home-Equity Lending All Decrease ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released its first-quarter 2024 U.S....
Homebuying Sentiment Hits New Survey Low
Citing Unaffordability, 86% of Consumers Say It's a Bad Time to Buy a Home The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) decreased 2.5 points in May to 69.4 as the component measuring consumer attitudes toward homebuying conditions fell markedly, reaching an all-time survey low. This month,...
the Merger of Mynd and Roofstock
The merger gives real estate investors access to a robust technology platform Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) announced the merger of Mynd, the company transforming how investors find, finance, lease, manage, and sell SFR properties, with Roofstock, a leading real estate services and...
Supreme Court Asks the Second Circuit to Reanalyze Whether the National Bank Act Preempts State Law Requiring Interest on Mortgage Escrow Accounts
By T. Robert Finlay, Esq. and Kathy Shakibi, Esq. of Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP INTRODUCTION On May 30, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) issued its opinion on a matter of far-reaching consequence – whether the National Bank Act preempts a New York State consumer...
ZOMBIE FORECLOSURES SHRINK TO EVEN SMALLER PORTION OF U.S. HOUSING STOCK IN SECOND QUARTER
Drop-off in Zombie Homes Tracks Broad Slowdown in Lenders Pursuing Delinquent Homeowners ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released its second-quarter 2024 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report showing that 1.3 million (1,289,387) residential properties...









