housing
This July, there were 20.8% fewer newly listed homes for sale than during July last year. Although active inventory has grown since June at a normal seasonal rate, there were still 45,000 fewer...
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Technology and finance, two of the biggest engines of the American economy, have provided the financial wherewithal for people to construct mega homes in the U.S. To identify the American places with...
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Mortgage rates have recently risen to levels not seen in over 20 years, with average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage interest rates climbing to over 7%, while the rates for borrowers who have low credit...
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On a single night in 2022, 582,462 people experienced homelessness in the United States, and numbers are on the rise. Since 2017, there has been a 6% increase in homelessness, with a disproportionate...
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San Francisco’s Bay Area was an affordable hippie and music enclave in the 1960s that later became a magnet for the gay community in the 1980s. The rise of the U.S. tech industry in the ’90s...
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White Americans not only make up the majority of the population — 59% excluding non-Hispanic whites — but they also dominate wealth ownership compared to Black and Hispanic Americans. The...
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Foreclosure activity in the U.S. is on the rise. In the first six months of the year, default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank repossessions, increased by 13% compared to the first half of last...
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In May 2023 the median home listing price reached $441,000, up from $430,000 in April. Despite the increase, the price is down from a record high of $449,000 in June 2022. The yearly growth rate in...
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The median home listing price in May 2023 rose to $441,000, a 0.9% annual increase. Despite the increase, the price is down from a record high of $449,000 in June 2022. This cooling trend is hopeful...
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The residential real estate market rallied at a near-record pace from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to just over a year ago. According to the S&P Case-Shiller price index, housing prices...
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The first two years of the coronavirus pandemic had a profound impact on the U.S. housing market as Americans fled expensive, high-population areas to mid-sized cities or adjoining suburbs in...
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Many parts of the United States face serious housing shortages. One study last year by the nonprofit research group Up For Growth estimated that the country needs about 3.8 million homes simply to...
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After almost three years of explosive growth, home price increase rates began to cool in the middle of 2022. Before then, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home price index, through much of 2022,...
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Corelogic’s real estate data are among the most carefully watched by experts. Each month, it looks at the national, state, and local markets. In its most recent report, it forecast prices from May...
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