Market Data + Trends 'A Recipe for Sales': Stock Market Gains Drive Luxury Housing Market Prices In the fourth quarter of 2017, stock market gains and investor confidence spurred on strong demand for luxury homes, with prices up 7.4...
Market Data + Trends Rental Prices Went up 3 Percent Nationally, Almost 9 Percent in Some Markets in 2017 A new analysis of U.S. rental prices found that the median rent rose 3.1 percent in 2017. Since the end of 2012 when housing prices bottomed...
Market Data + Trends The Number of One-Person Construction Trade Firms Isn't Rising, But Revenue Is At the lowest point of the housing downturn, from 2010 through 2015, the number of homes under construction increased by 131 percent. But,...
Market Data + Trends States With the Most Immigrant Construction Workers Immigrant workers now account for close to one in four workers in the construction industry, the highest share recorded by the American...
Market Data + Trends Forecasts Suggest Almost 13 Percent Rise in 'Typical Mortgage Payment' Over the Next Year U.S. home prices have risen more than 6 percent over the last year, but the 'typical mortgage payment' has increased about 12 percent year...
Market Data + Trends 10 Surprises From the 2017 America's Rental Housing Report Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Senior Research Associate Jonathan Spader lists ten surprising findings from the JCHS Rental...
Market Data + Trends Which Cities Are Ready for Amazon's HQ2? Amazon says its second headquarters will have up to 50,000 future employees, and eight million square feet of office space over the next...
Market Data + Trends Studying the 'Largest, Most Diverse, and Most Contradictory' Generation of Homebuyers The Center for Opportunity Urbanism's new report, "The Millennial Dilemma: A Generation Searches For Home... On Their Terms", examines how...
Market Data + Trends Nearly 80 Percent of 100 Most Expensive ZIP Codes in U.S. Are in California A new report from real estate database PropertyShark saya that California has 77 of the 100 most expensive ZIP codes, including five in the...
Market Data + Trends Realtors Report Weak Supply, Strong Buyer Traffic in November 2017 A new monthly survey of realtors reported strong buying activity, but weak or unstable supply conditions and seller activity. Respondents...