Mortgage database created to track bad actors now a recruiting tool

Unique IDs created by Nationwide Multistate Licensing System can reveal competitors’ loan originations by product, loan amount, geography and loan officer. Continue reading

Profit margins drop on fixer-uppers as flip sales ramp back up

Fix-and-flip investors have seen their lowest profit margins in a decade, with the typical return falling to 34 percent. Continue reading

Underwater homeowners gain breathing room as prices climb

Fewer properties are considered seriously underwater now that rising home prices have put homeowners with mortgages in a better position. Continue reading

Attom Data Solutions adds transportation noise data to offerings

The new data set will include noise scores for roads, highways, airports, railroads and railroad crossings, and fire stations. The product will also summarize a location’s overall noise environment. Continue reading

Foreclosure activity continues to decline in March

Sixty-one percent of U.S. markets saw foreclosure activity drop below pre-recession levels last month, but the numbers come with “a huge caveat.” Continue reading

US property taxes increased to $306.4B in 2019

The total property taxes levied on single-family homes in 2019 increased by 1 percent from 2018, the smallest increase in the past three years. Continue reading

Northeast markets most susceptible to impacts of coronavirus

Counties in the Northeast and Florida are at the greatest risk of taking the biggest hit to the housing market in the wake of the pandemic. Continue reading

Foreclosure activity hits lowest point in 15 years

There were a total of 48,004 properties with foreclosure filings in February 2020, the lowest number since Attom began tracking the data in April 2005. Continue reading

Home affordability modestly improves in first quarter of 2020

Median home prices were still unaffordable for 66 percent of U.S. counties in Q1 2020, but that number decreased from 70.4 percent in Q4 2019. Continue reading