Originally published on March 8, 2023, by Laura Pop=Badiu for CoworkingCafe.com.

Demand for flexible workspaces registered significant growth in recent years, mainly due to the wider availability of remote work and hybrid workstyles. At the same time, the uncertain economic waves led many businesses to downsize their office footprints and move past rigid, long-term leases toward more flexible and cost-efficient solutions. What’s more, according to a recent JLL report, the office sector remains under pressure in 2023, with tenants not only looking to increase efficiency and productivity but also to reduce their existing footprint and positively influence their bottom line.

Originally published on March 13, 2023, by Jennifer Ludden for NPR.

Years of homeowner horror stories and a growing body of research has cast a harsh light on how frequently racial bias can skew home appraisals. It's an industry that's dominated by white men whose methods for valuing homes haven't changed much in decades.

Originally published on March 15, 2023, by LakeHomes.com.

There are more than 70,000 lake homes and lots for sale in the U.S. with a combined value of more than $33 billion, up from the 60,000 or so properties available last spring with a combined value of around $26 billion, according to the Lake Real Estate Market report released March 9. Lake Michigan has the largest available inventory, followed by Puget Sound in Washington and Lake Norman in North Carolina.

Originally published on March 6, 2023, by Kenneth Applewhaite for Redfin.com.

Just over 7% of U.S. homes are worth $1 million or more, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That figure is as of January 2023, the most recent data available. The share has dropped from June 2022’s all-time high of 8.6% and remains essentially unchanged from a year earlier–but it’s up from 4.2% just before the pandemic began.

Originally published on March 9, 2023 by Michael Tucker for the Mortgage Banker's Association.

CBRE, Dallas, said delivery of a near-record 716,000 new multifamily units over the next two years will create a short-term oversupply, but noted the new supply will keep long-term fundamentals healthy.

Originally published March 2, 2023, by Sara Wiskerchen for Realtor.com.

Originally published by Christine Stricker on February 10, 2023 for ATTOM.

According to ATTOM’s just released January 2023 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, there were a total of 31,557 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in January 2023. That figure was up 36 percent from a year ago and up 2 percent from the prior month.

Originally published on February 16, 2023 by Michael Tucker for the Mortgage Banker's Association.

Originally published on February 16, 2023 by Thomas Malone for CoreLogic.

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Originally published by Jacob Channel on February 6,2023 for LendingTree.

Though it may sometimes seem as if millennials are destined to rent or live in their parent’s basements forever, they make up the largest share of homebuyers in the U.S., surpassing older (and richer) generations. In fact, millennials have dominated the housing market for the past decade.

Originally published on February 9, 2023 by Troy Green for the National Association of Realtors.

Approximately nine out of 10 metro markets registered home price gains in the fourth quarter of 2022 despite mortgage rates eclipsing 7%, according to the National Association of Realtors®’ latest quarterly report. Eighteen percent of the 186 tracked metro areas registered double-digit price increases over the same time period, down from 46% in the third quarter of 2022.

Originally published by Caitlin Groves on February 8, 2023 for MBA Newslink.

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry standards organization, issued a call for industry professionals to join a new Development Workgroup focused on developing APIs for MISMO’s Commercial datasets.

Originally published on January 31, 2023, by Stephanie Pagan for the National Association of Home Builders.

Originally published on January 15, 2023 by Randy Fuchs for Boxwood Means.

The total market dollar value of small-cap CRE rose marginally in 2022 headlined by a shift in opportunity and risk for investors and lenders. Though the market’s total equity valuation in December testifies to this domain’s inherent resilience, sinking deal volume, decelerating prices and rising cap rates over the second half of the year curbed the market’s considerable expansion following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Originally published by Christine Stricker on January 20, 2023 for ATTOM.

Originally published on January 17, 2023, by Michael Tucker for the Mortgage Banker's Association.

RealPage, Richardson, Texas, said net demand for apartments finished 2022 in negative territory for the first time in years.

Originally published on January 18, 2023, by Yardi Matrix.

The student housing industry is set up for another solid performance in 2023 after record returns last year, according to the latest National Student Housing Report from Yardi® Matrix.

Originally published on January 11, 2023, by Li-Ning Huang and Mark Palim for Fannie Mae.

In recent discussions of our economic outlook, we have been asked multiple times why home sales dropped so sharply this past year given a pronounced preference shift among consumers during the pandemic toward single-family housing. Indeed, single-family housing was an unintended beneficiary of the pandemic and its associated policy response. During the pandemic, mortgage rates reached historically low levels, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hovering around 3 percent through the end of 2021. Despite a low inventory-to-sales ratio during this time period by historical standards, as well as rising home prices, both home sales and purchase mortgage originations reached record highs in 2021.1 Anecdotal and analytical evidence suggest that the pandemic prompted people to move from smaller housing units in high-density city centers to larger homes in lower-density areas; and this was particularly true of first-time homebuyers.2 Overall, the rise in home sales was fueled by both first-time homebuyers and move-up buyers. In fact, demand was so strong that the median number of days that homes were on the market shortened from 74 in 2017 to 46 in 2021.

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Originally published on Janaury 10, 2023 by Michael Tucker for the Mortgage Banker's Association.

RCLCO, Bethesda, Md., reported master-planned communities–just like the broader U.S. housing market–saw a decline in home sales last year compared to 2021.

Originally published on January 10, 2023, by Michael Tucker for the Mortgage Banker's Association.

The grocery sector continues to show impressive resilience despite inflation, supply-chain issues and labor shortages, reported Placer.ai, Los Altos, Calif.