Opinion Another Housing Market Affected by This Year's Hurricanes Hurricanes Irma and Harvey damaged almost 1.8 million homes, aggravating the mobile home market's tight inventory. Sales of new units are...
Market Data + Trends New Home Sizes Are Still Trending Downward 2017's third quarter saw decline in new, single family home sizes, signaling a reversal of the upward trend caused by builders focusing on...
Trends How Tech Influences These 100 Metros A new report ranks 100 metros by "digital scores", based on the employment shares of workers in “low,” “medium,” or “high” digital jobs....
Market Data + Trends 'Infinite Suburbia': Peripheries Offer Better Options Than Urban Cores A new book argues that the exurbs and suburbs remain the dominant, and fastest growing part of the U.S. housing market. Much of this has...
Market Data + Trends Southern States May Have the Edge Bidding for Amazon's Second Headquarters Amazon plans to spend $5 billion on a second headquarters in the U.S. that will employ 50,000 people. New data evaluates which cities are...
Opinion Proposed Capital Gains Tax Changes Could Cause the Housing Market to Stall Housing inventory and short-term homeowners may be heavily impacted by proposed changes to laws excluding home sales up to $500,000 from...
Market Data + Trends 2018: the Year of the First-Time Homebuyer Many industry experts anticipate the number of first-time homebuyers will outpace the overall housing market in 2018, according to a new...
Market Data + Trends Latest Data Suggests More New Single Family Homes Are Coming to the Market In October, builders procured 5.9 percent more permits than in September, according to new Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and...
Market Data + Trends Toilets Use the Most Water in U.S. Homes Toilets account for the greatest share of indoor residential water use, 33.1 gallons per day (gpd), followed closely by showers, faucets,...
Market Data + Trends Areas With Most Flood Claims Have Higher Home Values Than U.S. Median Since 1978, only 12 counties have been responsible for a third of flood insurance claims in the U.S. Flood claims filed during that...
