It might be tempting to think that living in a city puts residents at a lower risk for disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, or forest fires. It might even be true, depending on how far that city is from a coastline or open farm country or a swath of woods. But cities have no shortage of environmental hazards. Smog. Contaminated Superfund sites.... Read More »
ATTOM Data Solutions is set to release its Year-End 2018 Home Sales Report next week, but before we do, we wanted to give you a teaser on home seller gains in those 20 markets covered by Case-Shiller. Nationally, homeowners who sold in Q4 2018 sold for an average of $54,500 more than their original purchase price, a slight decline from last... Read More »
The nationwide foreclosure wave that followed the Great Recession continued to wane in 2018, with the number of households officially in danger of losing their homes down for the eighth straight year according to the latest 2018 year-end foreclosure market report by ATTOM Data Solutions. Some 625,000 residential properties entered some stage of... Read More »
Divvy Homes is challenging the traditional buy-or-rent paradigm in three Midwestern markets with the help of market trend reports from ATTOM Data Solutions. “Divvy is a fractional homeownership company,” said Adena Hefets, co-founder of the San Francisco-based real estate tech startup that is focused on three markets east of the Mississippi:... Read More »
If you caught ATTOM Data Solutions latest 2019 Buy vs. Rent report, you saw that renting is now more affordable than buying in 59 percent of U.S. Housing Markets. Therefore, ATTOM decided to do a deeper data dive into some of those areas, where home affordability is still a possibility. Using ATTOM’s sales history data, which covers more than 155... Read More »
Love ’em or hate ’em, AVMs are a mainstay in how buyers and industry professionals gauge the worth of a property. It’s been that way since Zillow first introduced the world to the AVM by way of the Zestimate. But a lot has changed since the early days of AVMs. Today’s AVMs are not just for consumers. They power a host of... Read More »