Multifamily 10 Cities Experiencing the Highest Rent Increases in 2019 Apartment Guide recently studied rents across the country to check out where the highest increases are and by how much year-to-year. The...
Economics Americans Want to Buy, But Uncertainty Prevails Yet another survey finds it’s not current market conditions but future expectations that have consumers holding off on buying a house. ...
Financing House Flipper Financing Hits 13-Year High Though credit access is tighter compared with the no doc loans days that preceded the Great Recession, more investors are using mortgages to...
Market Data + Trends What Kind of Layout Do Millennials Want? Half of Millennials want a kitchen and dining room layout that is completely open. This layout is just as popular among Gen X’ers (50...
Trends Living Alone Is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be While these arrangements are at a scale too small to put a dent in the housing affordability crisis, shared housing and cohousing are...
Affordability Is There Anywhere an Average Wage Earner Can Live? Yes there are, but the situation is worsening. Property data-firm Attom Data Solutions looked at 500 counties and found that average wage...
Trends The New Home Story Is About the Number One The share of new homes with two or more stories declined to 53% of houses built last year compared with 55% in 2017, while one-story home...
Government + Policy Fed Waives Appraisal Requirement Certain home sales of $400,000 or less soon will not require an appraisal. The Federal Reserve Board signed off on the rule change,...
Affordability As Housing Prices Rise, Mobile Home Communities Are Thriving The need for affordable housing has fueled demand for mobile homes, according to commercial real estate firm Marcus and Millichap. In the...
Trends Renters Are Becoming Homeowners the Quickest in These 25 Cities A new study by SmartAsset has calculated the average time it takes for renters to become homeowners in the 100 largest US cities, and 25...
