Affordability Local Businesses 'Taking up Arms' to Fight Bay Area's High Housing Costs Entrepreneurs in the Bay Area are launching startups and raising money to help others purchase or rent homes to provide solutions to the...
Market Data + Trends Can't and Want: Perceptions of Housing Affordability More than 60 percent of respondents in a new ING International survey say they want to own a home. Up to 56 percent think they'll never be...
Market Data + Trends Researchers Work Toward Predictive Models for Future Urban Design A major study out of Oxford University and the University of Hong Kong concludes living in cities and more dense areas may be a healthier...
Market Data + Trends Housing Markets 'Overheated' With Home Prices up Seven Percent Nationally As of this fall, nearly half of the top 50 housing markets in the U.S. are overvalued, according to the latest data from CoreLogic. "The...
New-Home Marketing Detroit: a Housing Experiment In 2016, Detroit had more than 700 mortgages issued. Currently, a variety of groups, foundations, banks, and local officials are slowly...
New-Construction Projects LA Mayor Tackles Housing Market Needs, Introduces New Initiatives Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti set a goal of building 100,000 new housing units during his eight-year tenure. While this goal is nearly...
Trends San Francisco's 'Politically Sensitive' Housing Stock Is Coming to Airbnb Veritas Investments owns over 5,000 units in San Francisco, and will now allow tenants to rent out units using Airbnb. Yat-Pang Au,...
Market Data + Trends Construction 'the Weakest Element' of NAHB Markets Index in 3Q17 Building permits are one of the three indicators used by the National Association of Home Builders when analyzing market performance. ...
Market Data + Trends Uncertainty Abroad Draws Foreign Buyers to U.S. Housing Markets While U.S. domestic amenities may be appealing to some foreign homebuyers, economic and political factors in origin countries are primarily...
Opinion Loss of Second Home Mortgage Deduction Could Hurt Coastal, Mountain Area Markets Most One overshadowed feature of newly proposed tax reform is the removal of deductions for mortgage loans on second homes. Indeed, 80 percent...
