Real Estate News – Recent Articles
U.S. Foreclosure Activity Down 8 Percent Annually in January 2020
Foreclosure Starts and REOs Decrease Nationally There were 49,106 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in January 2020, down 13 percent from December 2019 and down 8 percent from a year ago. Nationally, one in every 2,777 U.S. properties received a foreclosure filing during the month of January. Counter to the national trend, 15 states... Read More »
Home Prices In Almost Half of Opportunity Zones See Annual Increase
Median Prices Again Rise Year-Over-Year in Two-Thirds of Zones Targeted for Tax Breaks; Half of Zones Have Median Home Prices Below $150,000 IRVINE, Calif. – February 20, 2020 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), today released its third special... Read More »
Law Firms Use Foreclosure Data to Generate Leads
There’s More for Your Practice than Bankruptcies Bankruptcy is a stopgap for the inevitable. And a lot of real estate attorneys expend a lot of effort marketing their bankruptcy services. There are two things to keep in mind, though. One: In most places, filing for bankruptcy is pretty simple and straightforward, so an attorney often is not... Read More »
Property Data for Insurers
Property Data for Insurers: A Must Amid Growing Natural Disasters Natural disasters are a growing concern for property owners — and their insurers should be equally worried. According to the Insurance Information Institute, losses from natural catastrophes topped $160 billion in just 2018 alone. In total, last year saw 850 disaster-level events... Read More »
Top ZIPS with Highest Shares of Equity Rich and Seriously Underwater Properties in Q4 2019
ATTOM’s 2019 Year-End U.S. Home Equity and Underwater Report released this week stated that one in four or nearly 27 percent of the 54.5 million mortgaged homes in the U.S. were considered equity-rich in Q4 2019, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loans secured by those properties was 50 percent or less of their estimated market value.... Read More »