ATTOM Insights
Top Real Estate Disrupters: Roofstock Disrupting Single Family Rentals
This is the second in a series of articles chronicling notable real estate disrupters fueled by property and neighborhood data from ATTOM Data Solutions. Top real estate disrupter Roofstock was formed when hedge-fund thinking collided with the often-inefficient single family real estate market in the wake of the Great Recession. In 2009 firms... Read More »
Top Real Estate Disrupters: Offerpad Disrupting the Disrupter
This is the first in a series of articles chronicling notable real estate disrupters fueled by property and neighborhood data from ATTOM Data Solutions. Zillow bought its first home in May. The online real estate giant’s plain-vanilla purchase of a four-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Chandler, Arizona, for $410,000 is bursting with symbolism... Read More »
Encore Performance: How Re-Performing Loans Helped Housing Bounce Back
America loves a good second act. This is especially true when the first act was depressing, or an individual suffered unfairly, only to come out on top during the process of rebirth. Usually, a second act has to do with a person who’s spent a lifetime doing one thing and has now found an opportunity or a calling to pursue something he or she is... Read More »
With Greater Property Data Access Comes Greater Responsibility
There has never been greater access to public record property data. More widely accessible public record property data advances two worthy objectives — increased transparency in the real estate market and a strengthened legal property system, which famed economist Hernando de Soto argued in The Mystery of Capital is the key to capitalism... Read More »
Private Lending Goes Public
The following is an excerpt from a white paper published by ATTOM Data Solutions. The full nine-page white paper with exclusive data and charts on the private lending marketplace is available for free download here. For many people the investment real estate market is off-limits. They can’t buy and they can’t invest because they lack access to... Read More »