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Market & Trends
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Rental Vacancy Increase in October 2016
Morningstar Credit Ratings has recently published its Single-Family Rental Performance Report for November 2016 showing vacancies increased to 5.2 percent in October while transactions worked through the summer’s increased lease expirations. Rental properties backing single-family rental securitizations increased by 4.4 percent from prior contractual rents. They are now below the ...
U.S. Home Refi Originations Increase
ATTOM Data Solutions’ newly released U.S. Residential Property Loan Origination Report for Q3 2016 shows more than 1.9 million loans – 1,919,180 – were originated on U.S. residential properties. This is down 2 percent from the previous quarter and up less than 1 percent from last year. Purchase originations were ...
Red-States for the Win: Why Blue-State Investors Buy Elsewhere
No matter what side of the political aisle you prefer, odds are that when it comes to your real estate investment portfolio, your choices tend to be more red than blue. A recent report from ATTOM Data Solutions indicates that although deep-blue California is home base for a vast population of ...
7 Ways Landlords Could Benefit from a Trump Administration
Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on Jan. 20, 2017, with plans to fully “shake things up” on Capitol Hill. Whether he can pull that off remains to be seen. No one really knows what the future holds, but we do have ...
Scaling the Wall of Maturities
A significant portion of outstanding commercial and multifamily mortgages held by CMBS-backed lenders were to mature in 2016-17—an upcoming “wall of maturities.” Online marketplace lenders have a place in sorting out these pre-Recession commercial loans. After-Effects of the Great Recession A huge number of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) conduit loans ...
5 Things We’re Thankful for in Today’s Real Estate Market
When William Arthur Ward wrote that “gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings…and change ordinary opportunities into blessings,” it is a near certainty that he did not have the 2016 housing market in mind. However, as a self-described “Christian optimist,” there is little doubt that were he still opining in ...
Where Out-of-State Investors Live and Buy
About 16 percent of the nation’s single-family rental homes - or 3.4 million properties - are owned by out-of-state investors, according to a new study from ATTOM Data Solutions. In many cases, ATTOM found investors lived in blue states with hotter housing markets and were buying in red states where properties ...
NAHB Predicts Growth in New Multifamily
Expect a strong year for new multifamily properties in 2017, the National Association of Home Builders reported. The newest Multifamily Production Index climbed three points in the third quarter to 53. A measure of 50 or higher indicates conditions are improving. The index often serves as a leading industry indicator ...
More Homeowners Have High Levels of Equity
More and more homeowners can be considered “equity rich,” according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ new U.S. Home Equity and Underwater Report. More than 13.1 million homeowners have a loan-to-value ratio of 50 or lower on their residence or 23.4 percent of all homeowners with a mortgage. Areas with high levels ...
A Look Ahead to the 2017 Housing Market
What does 2017 hold for the U.S. housing market? Zillow.com has released its forecast for the coming year and it looks like some noticeable shifts could be on the way. The home-ownership rate, which has been lower than normal, will rise as more and younger buyers enter the market. Many ...
Out-of-Staters Own 16 Percent of All Single-Family Investment Homes
A new analysis from ATTOM Data Solutions shows that 3.4 million single-family investment homes (non-owner occupied) nationwide are owned by an out-of-state investor. That’s 16 percent of all single-family investment homes. ATTOM Data Solutions, parent company of RealtyTrac, is the nation’s leading source for comprehensive housing data. In many cases ...
October Foreclosure Activity Up 27 Percent
The number of nationwide foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions —in October was up 27 percent from a 129-month low in September but still down 8 percent from a year ago, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ just-released October 2016 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. A total of ...
Move Over Ethel: Real Estate Investing is Now a Team Effort
Over the past few decades, real estate — like pretty much every industry on the planet — has undergone a huge transformation, thanks to technology. Let’s flash back to 1972 for a moment. Things were simple back then: A gallon of gas cost 55 cents, brand-new homes were selling for ...
Distressed home sales at nine-year low
ATTOM Data Solutions’ recently released Q3 2016 U.S. Home Sales Report shows distressed home sales at a nine-year low. Cash share sales also are at a nine-year low, while the average home price gain realized by sellers is at a nine-year high. ATTOM Data Solutions is the nation’s leading source ...
Plywood Out; Clear Boarding In
Effective this week, Fannie Mae is requiring “clear boarding” of its vacant properties in all states. The expanded requirement—outlawing the practice of boarding up pre- and post-foreclosure or REO properties with plywood—takes effect Nov. 9, 2016, with a 90-day adoption period for those servicing Fannie Mae properties to come into ...
Florida Supreme Court Gives Banks a “Do-Over” on Dismissed Foreclosures
Last week, the Florida Supreme Court decided to unleash a potential tidal wave of “new” foreclosures in the state, but the foreclosures in question are not really all that new. Instead, they’re mortgage foreclosure actions that were dismissed fewer than five years ago where the homeowners in question have once ...
Think Realty Magazine November/December 2016
+ WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | Forward Thinking • Get Into the Flow • Leading Question • Cautionary Tale Cover Feature | Sharing the Wealth Up Close & Personal | Demystifying Credit Scoring • With a Little Help • Motivation...or Excuse? • Street Smart Panel • Mastering the DFW ...
Ten-X Industrial Outlook Lists Top ‘Buy’ and ‘Sell’ Markets
Ten-X’s just-released report, “U.S. Industrial Market Outlook,” forecasts healthy expansion in the long term for industrial real estate assets, thanks to the continued rise of distribution centers tied to the growth of e-commerce and the increasing use of warehouses as cloud computing facilities. Ten-X is the nation’s leading online real ...
Is Yours Among These Spooktacular ZIP Codes?
With the holiday of haunt right around the corner, ATTOM Data Solutions decided to look at properties where the haunting may hit too close to home for neighbors and potential buyers. More than 40,000 single-family homes nationwide are vacant and have a homeowner who is now deceased, according to an ...
The constant flurry of news about the housing market has been consistently upbeat the past few years, as home prices increased, wages took a historic jump in 2015 and the market worked through the foreclosures left over from the Great Recession. “A lot of the data looks very healthy, and ...
Dallas-Fort Worth: Ensuring Economic Diversity
The Dallas-Fort Worth area undeniably relies heavily on the oil industry for its economic health and well-being, but regional and state policy-makers have spent more than a decade designing programs, incentives and policies to ensure that the local area continues to grow and evolve regardless of gas prices. Here are ...
Open any browser window to any news outlet of just about any persuasion and the headlines will scream at you: The Bust is Coming! The Next Housing Crisis! Read the coverage associated with these headlines and you’ll learn that the “new” housing crisis is composed of two separate but entwined ...
How Education Impacts Millennial Renters’ Creditworthiness
Higher education is a costly venture, and many who owe student debt wonder if the cost is worth the ROI. The following blog, reprinted with permission from data and analytics company CoreLogic, explains that education still makes a difference when it comes to ranking the creditworthiness of Millennial renters. Click ...
Single-Family Rental Returns Down, But Investor Activity is Up
ATTOM Data Solutions’ just-released Q3 2016 Single Family Rental Market Report found that average single-family rental returns dropped to a nine-year low for homes purchased so far in 2016 among 473 U.S. counties analyzed for the report. At the same time, purchase activity by institutional investors is on the upswing ...
Goldilocks Period for Housing Market?
The recent announcement that an earlier housing skeptic is now bullish on the U.S. housing market was stunning. The move was based on fundamentals, though—and is thus worth close review. Ex-Goldman Exec Makes a Big Bet on Housing Market Donald Mullen Jr., who a decade ago helped oversee the lucrative ...
