Market Data + Trends Disrupting Ourselves: Meyers Research National Housing Outlook for 2018 A look at the factors currently priming the housing industry for disruption
Market Data + Trends Share of Immigrants in U.S. Labor Force Continues to Rise According to Census survey data from 2004-2016, the share of immigrant workers in the U.S. construction industry's labor force has been...
Market Data + Trends In 2017, Construction Input Pricing Increased Overall The Bureau of Labor Statistics' most recent Producer Price Index (PPI) showed that prices paid for OSB and softwood lumber decreased in...
Market Data + Trends Where Properties Sold Quickest in November 2017 The National Association of Realtors' latest data show that properties sold in November 2017 were typically on the market for 40 days, down...
Market Data + Trends Mapping Out Where it's Better to Rent or Buy in the U.S. Attom Data Solutions' latest rental affordability report says that in 54 percent of the nation's housing markets, it's cheaper to buy than...
Market Data + Trends For a Quarter of the Housing Market, Sellers Are 'in the Drivers' Seat' The share of U.S. home sales above the listed price hit 24.1 percent in 2017, with the typical price increase at 3.1 percent. More than half...
Market Data + Trends Most U.S. Population Growth Was in Southern, Western States The U.S. population grew by 2.3 million between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017. Idaho had the largest percentage of growth, 2.2 percent,...
Market Data + Trends 'The New Normal' for Rental Households Currently, nearly half of renter households are cost-burdened. The 2017 rental housing report from Harvard University's Joint Center for...
Market Data + Trends Consumer Confidence in the Housing Market Dropped in December 2017 At the end of 2017, consumer confidence in the housing market dropped, as housing affordability remains a pressing concern, and as the new...
Market Data + Trends About 80 Percent of Homeowners Have 'Tappable' Equity The amount of home equity borrowers have at their disposal reached an all-time high in the third quarter of 2017 -- 42 million homeowners...
