Opinion Over $25 Billion in Real Estate Endangered by Southern California Wildfires In an attempt to track the impact of three of the six wildfires currently raging through Southern California, a new report from CoreLogic...
Market Data + Trends New Research Looks Back on Housing Crisis, Aid for Underwater Borrowers A new working paper argues that the federal government should have temporarily lowered mortgage payments for underwater borrowers after the...
Trends Buyers in the Driver's Seat: Top 10 Real Estate Trends for 2018 Experts expect that supply will catch up with demand, and more millennials will become homebuyers in 2018. Forbes' Real Estate Council...
Trends More State and Local Governments Pass Legislation Helping First-Time Homebuyers The Urban Institute recently found that 53 percent of renters said that they couldn’t afford a down payment to buy a home. Many states are...
New-Construction Projects Elevate or Bust: Homeowners Near Houston Impacted by New Flood Rules In December 2017, Harris County, Texas approved changes to its flood rules, requiring builders in some areas to elevate houses up to eight...
Market Data + Trends SoCal Wildfires Will 'Exacerbate an Already Challenging Market' Currently, six wildfires in Southern California have damaged 141,000 acres of land, and forced 212,000 people to evacuate, according to the...
Market Data + Trends FHA Announces Increased Loan Limits Starting in 2018 The Federal Housing Authority will increase loan limits to 3,011 counties for 2018, up from 2,948 counties in 2017, and 188 in 2016. In...
Market Data + Trends Increasing Rents Are Encouraging Millennials' Homeownership Aspirations Over one-third of millennials aged 28 years and older want to buy a home by 2021, according to new survey data. In Meyers Research's...
Trends Local Governments Try to Help Developers Build More Missing Middle Housing Duplexes, triplexes, bungalows, and row houses are experiencing a revival as architects, urban planners, and developers try to provide...
Opinion One Tax Bill Change Could Be a Costly Surprise for Home Sellers A long period of home price appreciation in Denver and along the northern Front Range Urban Corridor may make the area's homeowners...