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Top Summer Vacation Home Markets for 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions combed through the nation’s most popular vacation home cities — where at least one in every 12 buyers is looking for a second home — to find those with the best combination of good air quality, comfortable summertime temperatures, low crime, and appreciating home values — along with still-reasonable... Read More »
Luxury Real Estate Expert Jeana Sanders Joins First Team Real Estate
Record-Breaking Real Estate Sales Across the Huntington Beach Market Attract New Market Leader to Join First Team Real Estate IRVINE, Calif. – June 29, 2017 – First Team Real Estate–Southern California’s largest independent real estate brokerage–is thrilled to announce that renowned luxury real estate expert Jeana... Read More »
Q2 2017 U.S. Median Home Price at Least Affordable Level Since Q3 2008
Median Home Prices Rose Faster Than Wages in 87 Percent of Local Markets; 45 Percent of Markets Less Affordable Than Their Historic Norms, an Eight-Year High IRVINE, Calif. – June 29, 2017 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s largest multi-sourced property database, today released its Q2 2017 U.S. Home Affordability... Read More »
Buying a Foreclosure
Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this publication, it is not intended to provide legal advice. Individual situations will differ and should be discussed with a licensed attorney. For specific legal advice on the information provided and related topics, please contact the author. Foreclosures provide an... Read More »
Surviving as a First-Time Buyer in America’s Least Affordable City
A new joint analysis by ATTOM Data Solutions and Down Payment Resource found that first-time homebuyers in Denver — the least affordable market in Q1 2017 according to the ATTOM Affordability Index — can increase their down payment on a median-priced home by $13,900 (129 percent above just the minimum 3 percent down) and save nearly... Read More »
The Home Flipping Pyramid
While some may think home flipping is the domain of high-powered, highly capitalized institutional investors, the data suggests otherwise. More than two-thirds (69 percent) of all single family homes and condos flipped in the first quarter of 2017 were by investors of the mom-and-pop variety who just completed one flip during the quarter,... Read More »