Author: Christine Stricker
Top 10 States with the Worst Foreclosure Rates
According to ATTOM Data Solutions’ just released May 2019 U.S. Foreclosure Report, foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 56,152 U.S. properties in May 2019. That number is up 1 percent from April 2019 but down 22 percent from May 2018, for the 11th consecutive month with an annual... Read More »
Top Markets with Highest Share of Distressed Sales in Q1 2019
According to ATTOM Data Solutions Q1 2019 Home Sales Report released on April 25, 2019, nationwide the share of distressed sales continues to decline annually. Total distressed sales — bank-owned (REO) sales, third-party foreclosure auction sales, and short sales — accounted for 14.2 percent of all single family and condo sales in Q1 2019, up... Read More »
Top 10 Metros with The Lowest Property Tax Rates
This week ATTOM Data Solutions released its 2018 Property Tax Analysis. In addition to featuring the total amount of property taxes levied on single family homes in 2018 ($304.6 billion), the report showed that the average property tax amount on single family homes in 2018 was $3,498 – an effective tax rate of 1.16 percent. That number is up 3... Read More »
ATTOM Data Solutions Selected by HousingWire as 2019 Tech100 Winner
ATTOM DaaS recognized as impactful technology in the housing industry pushing the edge of innovation to move markets forward. IRVINE, Calif. – April 1, 2019 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), is pleased to announce it has been named once again by... Read More »
Top 10 Counties with The Worst Home Affordability
This week ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q1 2019 U.S. Home Affordability Index, which shows that median-priced homes were not affordable for average wage earners in the first quarter of 2019 in 71 percent of the U.S. housing markets. Affordability for average wage earners was determined by calculating the amount of income needed to make... Read More »
January 2019 Home Seller Gains by Market
ATTOM Data Solutions took an early look at home seller gains from January 2019 in the 20 markets anticipated to be covered by Case-Shiller next week. Among those 20 markets, San Francisco saw the greatest seller gains in January 2019, selling for an average of $325,000 more than their original purchase price. That price gain represented an... Read More »