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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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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 ...
5 Insights into the Growing Single-Family Rental Market
Real estate investors always are looking for insights into the growing single-family rental market. For example: What areas of the country are experiencing the best conditions for investing in rentals? And, what areas are showing a stagnating ability to make money from renting? Among the companies that analyze the data ...
September Foreclosure Activity at Lowest Level Since December 2005
A new report from AATOM Data Solutions shows home foreclosure activity in September 2016 was down 13 percent from the prior month and down 24 percent from one year ago, displaying the lowest level since December 2005. The September and Q3 2016 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report shows 82,972 properties with ...
Oklahoma Foreclosures Mirror Earthquake Spike
Home sales volume and prices in Oklahoma continued to trend higher during the two-year period ending in Q1 2016, according to a newly released analysis from ATTOM Data Solutions and Greenfield Advisors. But the period also saw a dramatic rise in the number of earthquakes as well as an increase ...
All-Cash Investment Home Prices Skyrocket
Median sales prices for all types of residential real estate are soaring, according to the just-released monthly HomeUnion Home Sales Report that examines August 2016 data. The report shows that the median sales prices for investment houses and owner-occupied homes increased 12.6 percent from one year ago to $266,500. The ...
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is not just the primary international airport serving the state of Texas and the largest hub for American Airlines, which also has its headquarters nearby. DFW is also a perfect example of the flexibility and creativity that makes the entire Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex an interesting ...
Dallas-Fort Worth: The Heat is (Still) On
When a city starts making regular appearances on multiple “overheated housing market” lists, real estate investors start to get a little antsy about their holdings in the area. Those who were considering putting money into those markets grasp their checkbooks a little more tightly. In the case of the Dallas-Fort Worth ...
Does the Math Add Up for Build-to-Rent Single-Family Homes?
Building single-family rental home neighborhoods seems like a great idea—until you run the math. Almost 12 percent of all households in the country now rent a single-family home. Certainly, a portion of these renters will pay a rental premium for a new home. However, there is a snag. While the ...
Best and Worst Cities in Which to Own Investment Property
Three Florida cities—Orlando, Tampa and Miami—rank among the Top 10 Cities in Which to Own Investment Property, according to results of an analysis published recently by GOBankingRates.com. The personal finance news and features website also ranked the Worst Cities in Which to Own Investment Property, with Anchorage, Alaska, taking that ...
The Housing Cycle: What Inning Are We In?
Where are we in the housing cycle? This, by far, is the question we get asked the most. It’s often framed with the metaphor of a nine-inning baseball game: What inning are we in? This question implies that markets move in unison, driven by similar factors. In reality, every market ...
A Slowing in High-End Housing?
Home prices are tied not only to interest rates and local demographic factors but also to new construction that brings on added supply to the housing stock. As prices rise, builders take on more construction projects, and the resulting new supply eventually permeates the market and can keep prices down ...
Tampa Tops Investment Housing Power Rankings
Three Florida cities—Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami—took spots atop HomeUnion’s first-ever “power rankings” of the top investment housing markets in the United States. Milwaukee ranked last among the 32 metro areas listed in the rankings. For the study, the online real estate investment management firm HomeUnion, ranked 31 metros based on how ...
4 Areas of Focus to Make Your Rehab Stand Out
The “lipstick on a pig” model is all but dead. Gone are the days of investors purchasing a house, putting in new carpet and paint and waiting a short period of time for the price to appreciate. For a house flipper, competition is increasing, and you need to make sure ...
New RentRange Report Shows Strong Single-Family Rent Growth in Sun Belt States
Newly released RentRange data shows a continued trend of strong single-family rent growth among Sun Belt states, with MSAs in Florida and California most heavily represented on the list. Rising home values in Florida and California, in particular, are creating hurdles for potential buyers—and, therefore, are continuing to drive a ...
HELOCs Increase for 17th Consecutive Quarter
Nearly 1.9 million (1,868,187) loans were originated on U.S. residential properties (1 to 4 units) in the second quarter of 2016, up 26 percent from the a two-year low in the previous quarter but down 4 percent from a year ago, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ Q2 2016 U.S. Residential ...
