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Opportunity Zone Home Prices Continue Riding Wave of Gains Across U.S. During Second Quarter of 2024
Median Home Values Increase in More Than Half of Opportunity Zones Targeted for Economic Redevelopment; Price Trends Inside Those Zones Continue to Closely Follow National Market Patterns; Some Measures in Opportunity Zones Again Outpace Nationwide Improvements IRVINE, Calif. – Aug. 8, 2024 — ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property,... Read More »
Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine-Learning Are the Cornerstones of Prosperous Real Estate Portfolios
“The only way for investors to achieve sustained outperformance relative to the market and their peers is if they have a unique ability to uncover material facts that are almost completely unknown to everybody else.” — Mark J. Higgins, CFA, CFP, CFA Institute The best investors have an uncanny ability to identify undervalued stocks — the... Read More »
Top 10 U.S. Housing Markets with the Largest Annual Increase in Equity-Rich Properties in Q2 2024
According to ATTOM’s just released Q2 2024 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, in the second quarter 49.2 percent of mortgaged residential properties in the United States were considered equity-rich. This means that the combined estimated loan balances secured by these properties were no more than half of their estimated market values. The... Read More »
Homeowner Equity Turns Back Upward Across U.S. in Second Quarter of 2024 as Home Values Surge
Half of Mortgaged Homeowners Once Again Equity-Rich; Portion of Owners Seriously Underwater Drops to Five-Year Low IRVINE, Calif. — Aug. 1, 2024 — ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, today released its second quarter 2024 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, which shows that 49.2 percent of mortgaged residential... Read More »
Is There a Housing Bubble? Climate Change and the Property Markets
Climate change is nothing new to the real estate and property industry. Insurance companies and regulators are two bodies aware of the increasing risks that wind, hail, tornadoes, and flooding are imposing on properties and homes. However, what is new is that researchers are warning that the data used to measure these risks is inaccurate.... Read More »
Top 10 U.S. Housing Markets with Highest Priced Homes in Q2 2024
According to ATTOM’s newly released Q2 2024 U.S. Home Sales Report, home sellers achieved a 55.8 percent profit margin on average single-family home and condo sales in the United States during the second quarter. This figure was mostly stable, increasing by approximately one percentage point from the first quarter of 2024, but remaining one point... Read More »