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Amazon HQ2 Finalists Ranked by Housing Market Health
Editor’s Note: The interactive table in this article was revised June 1, 2018, to reflect revised rankings that no longer include environmental hazard housing risk because that risk factor was inconsistently calculated across different geographies in the previously published rankings. This change did not impact the ranking of the top-ranked... Read More »
Predicting Intent in Real Estate with Data-Powered AI
Q&A with Likely.AI CEO and co-founder Brad McDaniel What is your elevator pitch/30-second sound bite for Likely.AI? We are an artificial intelligence platform that is specifically designed for the real estate industry. We’ve built this platform by aggregating data, including public record data from ATTOM on 155 million properties nationwide.... Read More »
Family Tree of Hottest Homebuyer Last Names in 2017
Home sales nationwide decreased 4 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, but sales to buyers with last names of Lin, Zhang, Wu, Liu and Huang increased by more than 20 percent while sales to buyers with last names of Burns, Porter, Jenkins and Cole decreased by 15 percent or more, according to a new ATTOM Data Solutions analysis of homebuyer surnames... Read More »
Americans Departing High-Priced Housing Markets for More Affordable Alternatives (Infographic)
Median home prices in Q1 2018 were not affordable for average wage earners in 304 of 446 U.S. counties (68 percent) analyzed in the most recent home affordability report from ATTOM Data Solutions, and on average across those 446 counties an average wage earner would need to spend 37.2 percent of his or her wages to buy a median-priced home. We... Read More »
U.S. Foreclosure Activity Down for 31st Consecutive Month in April
IRVINE, Calif. – May 16, 2018 – ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its April 2018 foreclosure activity (granular geo level data now available upon request). Nationally there were a total of 64,183 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in April 2018, down 14 percent from the previous... Read More »
ATTOM Data Solutions Named HousingWire’s 2018 HW Tech100 Winner
Cloud-based API and other innovative data delivery platforms provide clients with flexible options. ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, is pleased to announce it has been selected by HousingWire to be a part of its 2018 HW Tech100 award recognition program which features the top innovative technology solutions... Read More »