Home Flipping
Best Neighborhoods for Flipping Homes
For its 2018 Neighborhood Housing Index, ATTOM Data Solutions analyzed potential home flipping returns in 3,573 neighborhoods with sufficient home flipping data. Overall, the best neighborhoods for potential home flipping returns were those with an F rating, followed by D, C and B rated neighborhoods. Neighborhoods with an A rating offered the... Read More »
U.S. Home Flipping Returns Drop to Nearly Four-Year Low in Q2 2018
Home Flipping Rate Down From Previous Quarter and a Year Ago; Share of Financed Flips Down from Nearly 10-Year High a Year Ago; 32 Percent of Flips Acquired Via Distressed Sale, Down From 68 Percent Peak in Q1 2010 IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 6, 2018 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its Q2 2018... Read More »
Best Neighborhoods for Real Estate Buying and Investing
More Than 10,000 Neighborhoods Ranked and Assigned Letter Grades from A to F; Report Also Provides Aggregate Housing Characteristics and Trends by Neighborhood Grade IRVINE, Calif. – August 2, 2018 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its 2018 Neighborhood Housing Index, which uses new... Read More »
U.S. Home Flipping Rate Matches Six-Year High in Q1 2018
Average Flipping ROI Near Three-Year Low Despite All-Time High in Gross Flipping Profit; Share of Home Flips Purchased With Financing Increases to 9.5-Year High; Share of Flipped Homes Sold to FHA Buyers Drops to 10-Year Low IRVINE, Calif. – June 7, 2018 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its... Read More »
To Finance or Not to Finance Home Flips (Infographic)
Nearly 35 percent of all homes flipped in 2017 were purchased by the flipper with financing, a nine-year high, according to ATTOM Data Solutions. While financing flips may be attractive given that — in theory — it allows investors to leverage their capital to get a better return and do more flips, that theory does not quite work out according to... Read More »
The Promise and Pitfalls of ADUs as Affordable Housing Panacea
A paucity of affordable housing that threatens to inflame a burgeoning homelessness crisis and trigger an exodus of well-paying jobs is forcing local governments to consider creative solutions to this intractable problem. One such solution is to streamline the development of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the hopes that real estate developers... Read More »