Listing Language: The Relative Popularity of Different Home Listing Phrases By State
Think you know in which state you’re most likely to find references to boat landings in home listing descriptions, relative to the rest of the nation? What about snow mobiles, impact windows or dive-in pools?
The Techie Codeth, Then the Taxman Taketh
Tech workers nationwide that own a home pay more in annual property taxes than non-tech workers.
Negative Equity Bubbling Up Alongside Crude in U.S. Oil Hubs
The effects of a slowing energy industry first showed up early last year in local rental markets, particularly in Texas. They are now starting to bubble up in purchase markets, too, as home values fall and negative equity rises in parts of the country heavily dependent on the energy and oil industries.
Continued deterioration in U.S. housing affordability – particularly at the low end of the market and for renters – is bringing to light a number of problems around income growth and social mobility that may have big implications for all Americans going forward.
Social Mobility May Suffer as Income Growth Fails to Keep Pace With Rising Housing Costs
The United States has long cherished its hard-earned reputation as the land of opportunity. But for millions working to ensure their children can move up the socio-economic ladder, rapidly rising housing costs are threatening instead to kick the ladder out from underneath them, limiting their potential social mobility.
How Land-Use Regulation Impacts Inventory, Rents and Roommates
In many American cities, more means more – and not in a particularly good way. Tighter land-use regulation in these cities is associated with more rapidly rising rents, more acute shortages of homes for sale and more adults living with roommates in the face of rising housing costs and fewer housing options.
In Denver, Past Housing Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Housing Returns
Denver’s rapid growth has given rise to increasing concerns over both the availability and affordability of housing in the city itself. In response, the city has developed plans and proposals to try to ensure enough housing while also keeping housing cost burdens manageable. But do the city’s current plans go far enough? Yes and no.
Making It Work in the Mile-High City: Denver’s Rapidly Growing – and Changing – Job Market
Denver today is one of America’s fastest-growing and hottest markets, a far cry from the largely rough-and-tumble and relatively slow-moving mountain metro it was even 15 years ago. And as the city has changed, so too has its job market.
Q4 2015 Negative Equity: When Abnormal Is the New Normal
It’s no secret that high levels of negative equity cause housing markets to act abnormally. But that doesn’t mean that some amount of negative equity isn’t normal, or that persistently elevated rates of negative equity aren’t rapidly becoming the new normal in dozens of markets nationwide.
The Best Time to List? May Is the New March
The best time to list a home for sale -- when the sale price is maximized and time on market minimized -- has shifted from March to May.
