Author: Christine Stricker
Top 10 U.S. Housing Markets Most At-Risk of Downturns in Q4 2022
According to ATTOM’s newly released Q4 2022 Special Housing Risk Report, inland California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Delaware continued to have some of the highest concentrations of the most-at-risk markets in the country. The report shows the housing markets with the biggest clusters were in the New York City and Chicago metropolitan areas,... Read More »
Top 10 U.S. Metros with Largest Annual Increases in HELOC Lending
ATTOM’s Q4 2022 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report found that 1.52 million mortgages secured by residential property (1 to 4 units) were originated in Q4 2022 in the U.S. According to the report, that figure was down 24 percent from Q3 2022, marking the seventh quarterly decrease in a row, and down 55 percent from Q4 2021. The... Read More »
Top 10 U.S. Housing Markets with Zombie Properties in Q1 2023
According to ATTOM’s newly released Q1 2023 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report, 1,284,048 residential properties in the U.S. sit vacant, representing 1.3 percent, or one in 79 homes, across the nation. ATTOM’s latest vacant properties analysis also revealed that 298,533 residential properties in the U.S. are in the process of... Read More »
Top 10 Opportunity Zones with Lowest Median Home Prices
ATTOM’s newly released Q4 2022 Opportunity Zones Report found that median single-family home and condo prices decreased from Q3 to Q4 2022 in 56 percent of qualified zones around the country, and went down at least 5 percent in almost half. The report noted those declines closely paralleled drops in neighborhoods outside the zones as prices fell... Read More »
Top 10 U.S. Counties with Most Foreclosure Starts in January 2023
According to ATTOM’s just released January 2023 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, there were a total of 31,557 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in January 2023. That figure was up 36 percent from a year ago and up 2 percent from the prior month. ATTOM’s latest foreclosure activity analysis found that nationwide one in every 4,425 housing... Read More »
Top 10 U.S. Counties with Greatest Shares of Underwater Mortgages
ATTOM’s recently released Q4 2022 U.S. Home Equity and Underwater Report shows that 48 percent of mortgaged homes in the U.S. were considered equity-rich in Q4 2022. That figure was down slightly from 48.5 percent in Q3 2022, but still up from 41.9 percent in Q4 2021. According to the latest home equity and underwater analysis, while the... Read More »