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Price Gap Between Most and Least Expensive Homes is Shrinking, Data Shows

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

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Top 10 U.S. Counties with Most Foreclosure Starts in January 2023

Originally published by  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.

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Home Prices on the Rise in 9 out of 10 Metros, According to NAR

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.

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Millennials Make Up Majority of Potential Homebuyers in Nation’s Largest Metros: Data

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.

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Multifamily Starts to Drop Nearly 30% as Sector Faces Headwinds: NAHB 

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

 

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Renting Generally More Affordable than Buying, According to New Report 

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

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Apartment Demand Negative for the First Time Since ’09: Data

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.

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Reversing a Trend, Master-planned Communities See Softening Demand, Data Shows

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.

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New Home Construction on the Decline as Conditions Worsen, NAHB Reports

Originally published on December 6, 2022, by Stephanie Pagan and Elizabeth Thompson for the National Association of Home Builders.

The big jump in single-family home building activity that occurred in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in large metro outlying counties and exurban areas has shown a marked decline over the past 12 months, according to the latest findings from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Home Building Geography Index (HBGI) for the third quarter of 2022.

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Home Values Higher Near ALDI Grocery Stores: Report

Originally published on November 22, 2022, by ATTOM.

ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today released its 2022 Grocery Store Wars analysis, which shows how living near a Trader Joe’s, a Whole Foods or an ALDI might affect a home’s value – as a homebuyer based on home price appreciation and home equity, or as an investor looking for the best home flipping returns and home seller ROI.

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Construction of Single-family Homes Continues to Slow, According to NAHB

Originally published on November 17, 2022 by Elizabeth Thompson and Stephanie Pagan for the National Association of Home Builders.

Elevated mortgage rates, high construction costs for concrete and other building materials and weakening demand stemming from deteriorating affordability conditions continue to act as a drag on single-family housing production.

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Home Price Gains in Opportunity Zones Top Overall Market in Q3, ATTOM Report Reveals

Originally published on November 10, 2022, by ATTOM.

ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today released its third-quarter 2022 report analyzing qualified low-income Opportunity Zones targeted by Congress for economic redevelopment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (see full methodology below). In this report, ATTOM looked at 4,732 zones around the United States with sufficient data to analyze, meaning they had at least five home sales in the third quarter of 2022.

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Student Housing Earns High Grades with Record Performance in 2022: Yardi Matrix

Originally published on October 24, 2022, by the Yardi Matrix.

The student housing industry continued to ride healthy demand and strong fundamentals to another record-breaking performance in Q3 and 2022 overall, according to the new quarterly National Student Housing Report from Yardi® Matrix.

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Square Footage Costs More in the Suburbs than in Urban Centers, Redfin Reports

Originally published on October 18, 2022, by Angela Cherry for Redfin.

As home prices fall fastest in cities and mortgage rates rise, the value of a square foot in the suburbs has caught up with that of urban centers. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage, which found that space in suburban homes was worth more than space in urban homes in September for the first time since Redfin started tracking this data in 2018. The typical home in suburban neighborhoods nationwide was worth $206 per square foot during the four weeks ending September 25, just slightly higher than $205 in urban neighborhoods.

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Atlanta Boasts Most New Apartment Units, Study Shows  

Originally published on September 21, 2022, by Maria Gatea for StorageCafe.

Downtown living can be quite polarizing – some people love the hustle and bustle of city center areas while others tend to avoid them in favor of quieter neighborhoods a little further out. But even with the rapid development of life in the suburbs, downtown living never lost its shine. In fact, according to our latest study, the country’s major cities experienced a resurgence of apartment construction in their central neighborhoods over the last decade.

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Nearly Two-thirds of Homebuyers Hesitant to Buy in Disaster-prone Areas: Redfin

Originally published on October 7, 2022, by Isabelle Novak for Redfin.

Nearly two-thirds (62%) of U.S. residents who plan to buy or sell a home in the next year are hesitant to move to an area at risk of natural disasters, extreme temperatures and/or rising sea levels, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. The share is even higher among younger generations, high-earners, Democrats and people living in the Northeast.

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Americans Willing to Buy a Haunted House: Survey

Originally published on October 10, 2022, by Jaime Dunaway-Seale for Real Estate Witch.

In this monster of a market, buyers are willing to overlook just about anything to own a home, including a few ghosts.

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Remote Work Largely Responsible for Home Price Surge: Fed

Originally published on September 26, 2022, by Catarina Saraiva for Bloomberg.

The shift to working from home drove more than half of the increase in house and rent prices during the pandemic and will likely drive up costs and inflation going forward as the shift becomes permanent, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. 

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Sun Belt Cities Lead Nation in Canceled Home Purchase Agreements, Redfin Reports

Originally published on September 26, 2022, by Angela Cherry for Redfin.

Nationwide, roughly 64,000 home-purchase agreements fell through in August, equal to 15.2% of homes that went under contract that month. That’s up from 12.1% a year earlier and is comparable with July’s revised rate of 15.5%, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage.

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Pending Home Sales Drop 2% Nationwide, NAR Data Shows

Originally published on September 28, 2022, by the National Association of Realtors.

Pending home sales sagged for the third straight month in August, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Three out of four major regions experienced month-over-month decreases in transactions, however, the West saw a modest gain. Year-over-year, all four regions posted double-digit declines.

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