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Foreclosure Filings for All 50 States in December 2024
Real EstateIn December 2024, the U.S. housing market experienced a slight decline in foreclosure activity with 28,632 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings – marking a 3% decline from the previous month and 6% decline from a year ago. The U.S....
Pending Home Sales Fell the Most Since 2022 in December as Mortgage Rates Jumped
Real EstatePending home sales dropped 4.5% from November as mortgage rates jumped to the highest level in months. Roughly 40,000 home purchases were called off in December, equal to 16% of homes that went under contract—the highest December perce...
Pending Home Sales Decline Due to High Housing Costs, California Wildfires and Frigid Weather in Other Parts of U.S.
Real EstatePending sales posted their biggest decline in over a year this week, as did new listings. But mortgage-purchase applications are on the rise, and mortgage rates are coming down. Home tours and pending sales are falling as devastating w...
U.S. Foreclosure Activity Declines in 2024
Real EstateForeclosure Starts and Completions Down from 2023; December 2024 Foreclosure Activity Declines from Previous Month and Year; Q4 2024 Foreclosure Activity Declines from Previous Quarter and Year IRVINE, Calif. – Jan. 16, 2025 — ATTOM, a l...
Mortgage Rates Will Fall Slightly After Today’s CPI Report Shows Softer-Than-Expected Core Inflation
Real EstateThe December CPI report should reverse the jump in mortgage rates we saw last week after a strong jobs report, but political uncertainty and economic volatility will keep rates around 7% for the foreseeable future. The latest Consumer ...
Breaking Free from Banks: How Real Estate Investors Can Control Their Financial Future
Real EstateBreaking Free from Banks: How Real Estate Investors Can Control Their Financial Future by Jason K. Powers As real estate investors, we’re all too familiar with the challenges of securing capital. From navigating the ever-changing terms...
Los Angeles Wildfires: Redfin’s Latest Local Housing Market and Rental Data
Real EstateDana Anderson As a data journalist at Redfin, Dana Anderson writes about the numbers behind real estate trends. Redfin is a full-service real estate brokerage that uses modern technology to make clients smarter and faster. For more...
Unemployment Rate 4.1% in December
Real EstateAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 256k in December, 2024 with the unemployment rate coming in at 4.1%. As always, the BLS says employment in...
Top 5 Mortgage Data Providers
Real Estate***This article was originally written in 2021, but has been updated for 2025 to reflect new solution providers*** Mortgage data powers a range of solutions for real estate professionals and associated industries. Whether you’re a real...
2024 Property Tax Balloon Causing Sticker Shock for Homeowners
Real EstateProperty tax bills are another reminder of affordability challenges in the housing market After years of struggling to find a home in the nearly unattainable California housing market, Caroline began looking for a path to homeownership o...
More Than One-Third of Homeowners Say They’ll Never Sell
Real EstateMany homeowners are staying put because today’s housing costs are so high. More than one-third (34%) of U.S. homeowners say they’ll never sell their home, according to a recent Redfin-commissioned survey. Another 27% say they would...
Housing Affordability Didn’t Worsen in 2024—The First Time in Four Years That Has Happened
Real EstateA household earning the median U.S. income would have had to spend 41.8% of their earnings on monthly housing costs to buy the typical home in 2024, a slight improvement from 42.2% in 2022. A homebuyer needed to earn an annual income of ...
Housing Supply Just Hit a Four-Year High. But That’s Partly Because So Many Homes Are Sitting on the Market Unsold.
Real EstateOver half of home listings last month sat on the market for 60 days or longer—the highest November share since 2019. That’s a major reason housing supply jumped 12%. Active listings—the total number of homes for sale—climbed to t...
Unpacking 2024 Housing Market Trends
Real EstateThe market slowdown in 2024 was perceptible, but that doesn’t mean that price growth stopped This year, the housing market evolved in ways that few anticipated. Affordability tumbled to the lowest level in decades despite home price gr...
Housing Supply Ends 2024 On the Rise, Up 12% Year Over Year
Real EstateU.S. highlights: Four weeks ending Dec. 22, 2024 Redfin’s national metrics include data from 400+ U.S. metro areas, and is based on homes listed and/or sold during the period. Weekly housing-market data goes back through 2015. Subject ...
ATTOM Webinar Summary: 2025 Housing Market Outlook
Real EstateThis ATTOM webinar features industry experts Todd Teta, ATTOM Chief Product & Technology Officer, and Mike Simonsen, Altos Research Founder and President, as they discuss what’s to come for the housing market in 2025. During this webin...
A Comprehensive Look at ATTOM’s Boundary Data: Types, Benefits & Use Cases
Real EstateAt the core of every home sale, mortgage, refinancing or property assessment are boundary lines. Most obviously, parcel boundaries are needed to create maps and see the location and shape of a property. But boundary data is crucial for c...
2024 Look Back: The Year That Redefined Housing Market Trends
Real EstateHow homebuyers adapted to the 2024 market gives insights into upcoming trends As we close the chapter on 2024, it’s clear this year was anything but predictable for the property market. From unexpected mortgage rate spikes to creativ...
Mortgage Rates Fall Ahead of Potential Government Shutdown
Real EstateChen Zhao Chen Zhao leads the economics team at Redfin, where she produces research on the housing market for public and internal audiences. Previously, she was an executive director leading housing finance and financial markets...
Top 10 Counties with the Largest Quarterly Increase in Affordability Indexes in Q4 2024
Real EstateAccording to ATTOM’s Q4 2024 U.S. Home Affordability Report median-priced single-family homes and condos are still less affordable compared to historical norms in 99 percent of counties with sufficient data. This trend, observed since ...