There has been a lot of talk in the last few years (and increasingly since the pandemic) that large institutions such as BlackRock and Zillow are buying up the housing stock in the United States....
Housing Inventory
Housing Inventory
Why Real Estate Investors Are Buying Homes at a Record High
A new report revealed that real estate investors are buying a large percentage of U.S. homes that hit the market. Investor-purchased homes accounted for more than 18% of all sales in the fourth...
Buyers Face Challenges Due to Record Low House Listings in the Philly Area
Philadelphia homebuyers aren’t going to have an easy time in 2022; there simply aren’t enough houses on the market to go around. The number of listed houses in the area has been declining over the...
RealtyTrac® Data Shows Increase in Share of Real Estate Investor Purchases
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2022 – Real estate investor purchases accounted for 16.4% of all home purchases nationally in Q3 2021 compared with 11.7% in Q3 2020, a year-over-year increase of just over...
Alternative Construction Methods Reduce Emissions
We need housing. The U.S. is underbuilt by 5.5 million housing units (at least). And yet, we also have a global imperative to reduce emissions into the atmosphere, especially carbon emissions. Is...
How You Can Benefit from Common Living
Food, water, clothing, and shelter are indeed the necessary foundations of survival, and more and more people are looking at creative ways to find a place to rent and live. In cities far and wide,...
Don’t Let “New Normal” Slow You Down
Turn on any newscast and one of the phrases you are likely to hear is the “New Normal.” There is an expectation that the COVID-19 crisis has permanently altered just about everything we know to be...
Vacant Housing
ATTOM Data Solutions recently released its Q3 2019 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report, which found there are more than 1.5 million (1,530,563) U.S. single-family homes and condos vacant...
Fannie Mae: Housing Forecast
According to Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group, domestic growth is expected to be stronger in 2019 than previously predicted thanks to consumer spending, a strong labor...
State of Nation’s Housing Report Released
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2019 report, published by The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, was released June 25. The housing report asks what real estate investors — and...
