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Home Affordability Improves in 60 Percent of U.S. Markets in Q3 2017 Compared to Previous Quarter
Affordability Still Worsens From a Year Ago in 79 Percent of Local Markets; Wage Growth Outpaces Home Price Growth in 48 Percent of Markets Over Past Year; U.S. Home Prices Up 73 Percent, Wages Up 13 Percent Since Q1 2012 IRVINE, Calif. – Oct. 5, 2017 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s largest multi-sourced property database, today... Read More »
Alternative Assets Find a Home in Self-Directed Retirement Accounts
With the stock market soaring, it might just be the time to look for alternative assets before a market shift. That’s exactly what’s happening in the world of self-directed IRAs. Taking the reins of your own financial future, investment performance, lifestyle in... Read More »
Shared Equity: Starter Homes for the Next Generation
It might seem like a strange idea but buried in an old piece of legislation designed to help coal miners is a magical key which can potentially open the ownership door for millions of new homebuyers. The idea is called “shared equity” and there’s reason to think that its time has come. More than 16 percent of all single family purchases in the... Read More »
Watch: Harvey’s Impact on the Houston Housing Market
ATTOM Data Solutions’ Daren Blomquist discusses with CNBC how Hurricane Harvey is expected to cause a dip in home sales in the Houston, as well as potentially weigh on home prices with an increase in distressed sales. Read More »
Houston Foreclosures Up Ahead of Harvey, Bucking National Trend
Even before Hurricane Harvey hit southeast Texas in late August 2017, signs of distress had been showing up in the Houston housing market, according to the ATTOM Data Solutions August Foreclosure Market Report. Houston foreclosure starts (scheduled foreclosure auctions) increased 67 percent in August compared to a year ago, and year-to-date... Read More »Home Prices Rising Twice as Fast in U.S. Cities with Highest Natural Hazard Risk Than in Lowest-Risk Cities
Homeowners in Highest-Risk Cities Have More Equity, Longer Homeownership Tenures; Appreciation Slower in Florida and Louisiana Cities with Highest Flood Risk, Bucking Trend IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 21, 2017 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s largest multi-sourced property database, today released its 2017 U.S. Natural Hazard Housing... Read More »