Real Estate Trends
U.S. Year Over Year Foreclosure Activity Rises for Sixth Straight Month in August
Foreclosure Starts Increase 17% from Last Year; Completed Foreclosures Increase 41% IRVINE, Calif. — September 11, 2025 —ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, today released its August 2025 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 35,697 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings—... Read More »
Top 10 Most Vulnerable U.S. Housing Markets in Q2 2025
ATTOM’s newly released Q2 2025 U.S. Housing Risk Report analyzes county-level housing markets across the U.S. to identify those most and least susceptible to downturns in Q2 2025. Based on factors like home affordability, equity levels, foreclosure activity, and unemployment rates, the report reveals that a significant number of both the... Read More »
Southern States Dominate List of Riskiest U.S. Housing Market Counties in Q2 2025
California Leads with Most At-Risk Counties, Virginia Among Safest; With Prices High Nationwide, Unemployment and Foreclosure Rates Drive Local Housing Market Risk IRVINE, Calif. — Sept. 4, 2025 — ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, today released its latest Housing Risk Report spotlighting county-level... Read More »
Top 10 U.S. Metros Leading the Yearly Growth in Mortgage Originations
ATTOM’s Q2 2025 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report shows that 1.76 million residential mortgages (for properties with one to four units) were issued in the second quarter—up 19.4 percent from Q1 2025 and 6.3 percent higher than Q2 2024. https://www.attomdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Q2_2025_Mortgage_Origination_Report.mp4... Read More »
U.S. Mortgage Originations Up 19 Percent in Q2 2025
Quarterly total follows three-year trend of spring increase; Share of equity lending drops again IRVINE, Calif. – August 28, 2025 — ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, today released its Q2 2025 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which shows that 1.76 million mortgages secured by... Read More »
Top 10 Metros with the Highest Zombie Foreclosure Rates in Q3 2025
According to ATTOM’s newly released Q3 2025 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report,1.4 million U.S. residential properties (1,385,902), or about 1.3% of all homes, sit vacant. This vacancy rate has held steady for three-and-a-half years amid a persistently high-demand housing market.... Read More »