Trends Startup Allows You to Buy Your Home One Step at a Time A new startup based in the U.K., StrideUp, allows homebuyers to purchase a portion of their home and rent the remainder. “Our typical...
Market Data + Trends Comparing Younger and Older Millennial Homebuyers From January to September 2017, 40 percent of homebuyer loan applications were attributed to millennials. However, homebuying trends for...
Market Data + Trends Homebuyer Demand Reaches Highest Peak Since 2000 The latest findings for Q3 2017 suggest the increase in demand is fueled by rental and home price inflation, and is moderating the housing...
Affordability Can San Diego Build Its Way Out of Unaffordability? San Diego County is now rated as the 11th least affordable housing market worldwide, according to Demographia's survey data, and needs to...
Opinion Senate GOP Tax Plan a Mixed Bag for Homeowners The U.S. Senate recently passed the GOP tax plan, which would eliminate state and local tax (SALT) deductions, and alter tax brackets so...
Trends More New Single-Family Homes Have Decks The number of new homes started with decks increased in 2016 to 23.7 percent from 23.3 percent in 2015, continuing the trend of upward...
Land Planning Land Developers 'Gerrymandered' Boundaries of Risk in Texas Master-Planned Community FEMA's effort to correct maps used for the federal flood insurance program has become a backdoor for developers to build on low-lying land....
Trends In Defense of the Suburbs In the U.S., the suburbs house more than six times the number of people living in urban cores. A new book pushes back on the concept of...
Trends Colorado's Rising Housing Prices Are Driving Residents Away In 2016, the number of Coloradans leaving their home state for better job prospects and more affordable cost-of-living elsewhere hit a...
Trends Berkeley Project 'May Set Precedent' for Out-of-Scale Development in Single-Family Neighborhoods Berkeley, California's Haskell Street project has become a microcosm of the issues surrounding the nationwide housing affordability crunch -...
