Market Data + Trends Staying Home: Why Homeowners Aren't Moving The median tenure of buyers staying in their homes is up to 10 years in 2016 and 2017 from a median of six years going back to 1985. In...
Market Data + Trends Student Loan Debt Continues to Hinder Housing Aspiration According to a new profile by the National Association of Realtors, the share of home sales to first-time buyers fell one percent over last...
Market Data + Trends Green Building Is a Priority for Multifamily and Single Family Markets Home builders' involvement in green building is growing. Over one third of single family and multifamily builders made over 60 percent of...
Opinion NAR-Backed Bill Introduced to 'Make Mortgages More Affordable' Ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), recently introduced the Making FHA More Affordable...
Market Data + Trends Who Is Today's Typical Homebuyer? A new survey from the National Association of Realtors profiles typical homebuyers and sellers in today's housing markets that are marked by...
Opinion Record Merger, Tax Reform Plan Offer Differing Industry Outlooks Lennar Corp.'s record takeover of CalAtlantic will be the largest merger of home builders, with a stock-market value of about $18.5 billion....
Market Data + Trends Study Finds Insurance Quotes Are Lower for Concrete Buildings Builder’s risk and commercial property insurers recognize concrete buildings are less vulnerable to risk than wood-frame buildings, new...
Market Data + Trends Data Shows Top 5 Worst Markets to Move From Renting to Buying Are in California Using data from the American Community and Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability surveys, Wendell Cox evaluated 53 of the...
Market Data + Trends Top 11 U.S. Cities for Millennial Homebuyers Millennials make up 30 percent of the current population of homebuyers, according to Realtor.com. As housing supply remains tight, and home...
Market Data + Trends 32 of the Most Populous North American Cities Are 'Seriously and Severely Unaffordable', Study Says Researchers have compiled data on annual incomes and housing prices in the 50 most populous cities in North America to calculate housing...
