Market & Trends
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Market & Trends
The world of real estate investing moves quickly. Catch the must-know news, market information, and trends for the industry here.
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Report: Federal Reserve Says No Interest Rate Increases This Year
The Federal Reserve announced after its March meeting that it will leave short-term interest rates unchanged for 2019 and will not raise rates for the remainder of the year. This marks the end of five consecutive quarters of rate increases by the Federal Reserve. The Federal Open Market Committee indicated ...
Planning for the Future: The Impact of Marijuana Legalization
Successful real estate investors understand having a solid long-term business strategy is key. Part of that strategy is staying up-to-date on changes in state, local, and federal law, and how they may impact rental activities. The situation is becoming more complex as we see an increase in states enacting new ...
How will the Spring Real Estate Market Perform? Economists Weigh in
As investors gear up for what’s typically the hottest season of the year for real estate, economists are offering optimistic outlooks for the housing market this spring. There is an array of reasons for investors and other real estate professionals to be hopeful when April rolls around, said Lawrence Yun, ...
Counties With Most Abundant Foreclosure-Buying Opportunities
There were a total of 624,753 U.S. properties that received a foreclosure filing in 2018, and of those, 230,305 properties were repossessed by a lender, according to the ATTOM Data Solutions 2018 Year-End Foreclosure Activity Report. While bank repossessions (REOs) decreased 21 percent from 2017 and were down 78 percent ...
Huge Influx of Millionaires will have ‘Significant Impact’ on Silicon Valley Real Estate
Thanks to the prospective public offerings of several large tech firms, Silicon Valley will likely see thousands of new millionaires vying for real estate in the next two years. Already boasting some of the most expensive homes and neighborhoods in the United States, the San Francisco Bay Area is expected to ...
Top 10 U.S. Metros for the Highest Vacancy Rates
For investors, understanding the overall health of a market is imperative to success. One metric — an area’s vacancy rates — can help not only in determining financing needs but also how much you can hope to sell the property for. And thanks to a recent report from LendingTree, investors ...
iBuyer Growth Grounded in Speed, Simplicity and Certainty of a Cash Purchase
Cash is king in a home sale — and cash buyers are often able to buy below market value — because cash represents speed, simplicity and certainty for the home seller. More to the point, sellers attach some monetary value to speed, simplicity and certainty in a home sales transaction ...
Survey: Home Sellers Question Value of Realtors, but Still Use Them
As new technology disrupts the world of real estate, home sellers are growing increasingly skeptical of the value realtors bring to the dealmaking table. But while that skepticism seems rich among sellers’ sentiments — in particular with Millennials — most will still turn to a realtor to sell their home, ...
Report: Fifth of Home Sellers Dropped Prices in February
Continuing a recent overture of good news for prospective buyers and investors, about one in five homes for sale dropped in prices last month. February saw 21.1 percent of homes for sale nationwide drop in price, which was the largest rate drop in the last decade, according to a report ...
Flipping Flop? Fix-and-Flip Deals Decline in Rates, Returns
Returns and sales for single-family and condo flipping are struggling, according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions. 207,957 single-family homes and condos were flipped in 2018, down about 4 percent from 216,537 flips in 2017, according to ATTOM’s U.S. Home Flipping Report. Flips comprised about on 5.6 percent ...
Millennials Flexing Buying Power, Boosting Homeownership Rates for Two Years
In spite of bleak headlines saying homeownership evades their grasp, Millennials for the last two years have helped drive growing homeownership rates, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data. Thanks in large part to people under 35, the U.S. homeownership rate grew to 64.8 percent in the fourth quarter of ...
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Study Reveals the Best Month for Sellers to List their Home
As the realtors prepare for what’s anticipated to be a booming Spring season, sellers are eyeing when exactly to list their homes. And thanks to a recent study from Zillow, sellers have more insight on when to list to maximize their time and returns. Data indicates that not only do ...
Despite Historically-Low Rates, Foreclosures Increasing in Areas
While mortgage delinquency has dropped to historic lows, there are pockets of the U.S. seeing an uptick in foreclosure starts, according to a report from ATTOM Data Solutions. A handful of states are reporting year-over-year increases in foreclosure starts, including Montana (up 48 percent), Minnesota (up 29 percent), Nebraska (up ...
Zillow Report Details the Best Big Cities for Buying, Selling
As the Spring selling season looms, investors will have to look at opposite coasts for the best locales in which to buy and sell homes, according to a recent Zillow report. The East Coast hosts seven of the top 10 metros that have the best conditions for buyers, according to ...
10 Years Later: How the 50 Biggest Metros have Recovered Since the Great Recession
In 2008, many homeowners were devastated by a financial crisis spurred on by the collapse of the U.S. real estate market, otherwise known as the Great Recession. Of course, much has changed in the decade since the United States’ subprime mortgage crisis and real estate values have skyrocketed around the ...
How Will the New Tax Law Affect Real Estate Investors?
While it may not be the most exciting topic, understanding the new tax law could save you significant time and money. Taking effect in 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the most significant change to U.S. tax law since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. And to the ...
Google Plans Enormous Real Estate Spending in 14 States
Google is planning to shell out serious cash toward real estate in 2019. The tech titan recently announced that it plans to spend about $13 billion to expand its already massive footprint throughout the United States. The capital will largely be allocated toward data centers and offices across the U.S. as ...
Study Reveals Renting is Cheaper than Owning in Every State
Homeowners are spending more money per month than renters in every U.S. state, according to a recent CNBC report. While price differences vary from state-to-state, homeowners with a mortgage are spending more each month than renters in all 50 states, the report found, citing data from the U.S. Census Bureau ...
Billions of Dollars are Heading Toward ‘PropTech’
There’s a phrase in journalism to verify reporting and find the truth: “Follow the money.” The motto also applies to venture capital funding to determine what innovations are poised to emerge and wreak havoc on stagnant industries beholden to their status quos. So when you look at real estate, see ...
Zillow: After 44-Month Drop, Home Inventories are Starting to Grow
To the joy of prospective buyers, home inventories are finally starting to grow around the country. U.S. home inventories increased 1.2 percent from a year ago, according to a recent report from Zillow Research. “January marked the reversal of a longstanding trend in the housing market,” Zillow wrote. “A ...
Report: Freddie Mac Reports Fixed-Rate Mortgages Hit 12-month low
Fixed mortgage rates have reached a 12-month low, according to a report from Freddie Mac. Freddie on Thursday released results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which found that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have hit their lowest levels since early 2018. “The combination of cooling inflation and slower global economic growth ...
Report: Foreclosures and Delinquencies at Lowest levels in 10 years, expected to rise in 2019
Mortgage delinquency rates and foreclosures have dropped to their lowest rates in 10 years, according to a recent CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights report. The report found that 4.1 percent of U.S. mortgages were in a stage of delinquency in November 2018, representing a 1.1 percentage point decline in the overall ...
As Mortgage Rates Dip, Buyers May See a Rosier 2019 Market
We may only be six weeks in, but 2019 appears to be shaping up as a better year for buyers than 2018. Setting the stage for solid springtime sales, 30-year fixed rate mortgage rates recently hit a 10-month low, according to Freddie Mac. “The U.S. economy remains on solid ground, ...
Number of Equity-Rich Properties Hit Record High in 2018
Despite signs of a cooling market, the number of “equity-rich” properties hit an all-time-high in 2018. In the fourth quarter of 2018, there were roughly 14.5 million equity-rich properties — an increase of more than 834,000 from a year ago, which is its highest rate since the data started being tracked ...
