Articles tagged 'Homeownership'

As the United States limps out of economic disarray, it can often seem like the nation is taking one step forward and two back. This spring’s home-buying season is typical of that lurching sensation. Home prices are slowly climbing—by 4.6 percent since last year, according to Black Knight Financial Services. The latest report from...

The Housing Market Conditions Report is released in conjunction with the annual update of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal. The objective of this report is to help users of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal interpret IHS market conditions indicators such as levels of foreclosure distress, the characteristics of property sales, or levels of mortgage credit, and how they vary across the region in the most recent data.

After aggressively entering the housing market in 2012, institutional investors slowed their purchasing of single family homes in early 2014, signaling the beginning of a new phase in the real estate owned (REO)-to-rental cycle that shifts focus away from property acquisition and increasingly toward how these global corporations will act as property owners...

Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.

The growth of institutional investors as a dominant player in certain hard-hit housing markets may have implications for the recovery and stability of these markets in coming years. This post examines the recent activity of the top business buyers of single family homes in Cook County and highlights the emergence...

Where is the housing market headed? The U.S. housing market could be in a recovery that is showing signs of slowing. Or perhaps it is recovering too quickly and another bubble is forming which is on its way to bursting.The true nature and the direction of the housing market recovery...

Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.

The research brief, “The Impact of Lock-In Effects on Housing Turnover and Implications for a Housing Recovery” summarizes a new working paper by IHS researchers Patric Hendershott, Jin Man Lee, and James Shilling. It finds that rapidly increasing interest rates, along with negative equity, “lock-in” households to their existing mortgages and residences, which reduces housing turnover.

Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.

Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.