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Top 20 Metros in 2018 Where Cash is King
While cash sales may be on the decline nationally, compared to 2011 and 2012 when cash sales were at their peak. There are still areas in the housing market, where cash is king. ATTOM Data Solutions just released its Year-End 2018 Home Sales Report and in the vast sets of data mentioned in the report – home seller-gains, institutional investor... Read More »
Average U.S. Home Seller Profits at 12-Year High of $61,000 in 2018
Median Home Sale Prices Hit an All-Time High at $248,000 in 2018; Homeowners Staying Put Longer as Average Homeownership Tenure Rises to New High IRVINE, Calif. – Jan. 31, 2019 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its Year-End 2018 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that home sellers in 2018... Read More »
How Planners Use ATTOM’S Environmental Hazard Data
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 »
Q4 2018 Home Seller Gains by Market
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 »
HomeAuctionLists.com Defragments Investor Leads with Property Data
Frustrated with the fragmented state of real estate investor leads, longtime investor Keith Fiskum launched HomeAuctionLists.com in 2018 — fueled by record-level property data from ATTOM Data Solutions. “It’s a unified platform to find on-market and off-market lead opportunities for real estate investors,” said Fiskum, who has been investing... Read More »
Market Trend Data Helps Divvy Challenge the Buy-or-Rent Paradigm
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 »