Trends Rising Home Prices May Be Prolonging the Homebuying Process The lack of available inventory in the housing market has overheated home prices, making the buying process longer for many home shoppers....
Market Data + Trends Most Millionaires in the U.S. Live on the Coasts The top five states in the ranking were on the East Coast, including Connecticut, Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts....
Economics Not All Communities Have Fully Recovered From the Housing Crisis Researchers have found that the U.S. housing market regained the value lost during the recession, roughly $9 trillion, yet not all housing...
Trends Grand Rapids, Michigan Deemed Best City for Work-Life Balance In a comparison of 50 U.S. metros, Grand Rapids, Michigan was named as having the best work-life balance, as housing costs take up only 18...
Market Data + Trends Survey: The Amount of Buyer Offers Held Steady in December 2017 Home seller agents who closed a sale in December 2017 received 2.2 buyer offers, according to the latest monthly survey data. The number of...
Market Data + Trends Senior Population Growth by Housing Market Since the 2010 Census, the share of the U.S. population aged 65 years and older has risen 3.3 percent annually. New analysis looks at senior...
Market Data + Trends Top 10 Cities for Millennial Migration Millennials are being touted by some as "the most powerful generation" in the U.S. Ten American cities have seen the largest influxes of...
Builders The Merger of Lennar and CalAtlantic Has Been Completed In the second week of February 2018, Lennar Corporation and CalAtlantic Homes was approved nearly unanimously by the companies' stockholders...
Market Data + Trends Mortgage Application Process May Be Harder for Self-Employed Homebuyers Self-employed workers applying for a mortgage may encounter extra hurdles, or even rejection from a lender, where other homebuyers may not. ...
Market Data + Trends The Amount of Rental Space $1,500 Allows Globally In Istanbul, Shanghai, Berlin, or Beijing, a renter spending $1,500 per month can live in a space between roughly 1,431 and 1,894 square...