Home Sales & Prices
Will Amazon Save the Swamp?
The Washington, D.C. region is eagerly awaiting the selection of a candidate that could dramatically shift its fortunes in 2019 and beyond. Many in the region are hoping that one of three candidates located in the Washington D.C. area will beat out 17 others from around the country to be selected as the new location for Amazon’s second company... Read More »
U.S. Home Prices at Least Affordable Level Since Q3 2008
Home Prices Less Affordable Than Historic Averages In 59 Percent of Local Markets; 75 Percent of Local Markets Not Affordable for Average Wage Earners IRVINE, Calif. – June 21, 2018 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its Q2 2018 U.S. Home Affordability Report, which shows that the U.S. home... Read More »
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 »
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 »