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Nearly 70 percent of home shoppers this spring think the U.S. will enter a recession in the next three years, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to close on a home, according to new survey data released today from ...

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ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), today released its Q1 2019 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that homeowners who sold in the first quarter realized an average price ...

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As the spring home buying season kicks off, a new survey from the National Association of Realtors® shows that 83 percent of buyers’ agents say that staging makes it easier for buyers to visualize a property as their future home, according to ...

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The shortage of housing affordable to moderate-income home buyers – including first-time buyers — and solutions to increase the supply are explored in a new report from the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Terwilliger Center for Housing and leading real estate ...

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  Rent prices grew at their fastest rate in 10 months in February, reaching 2.4 percent year-over-year appreciation, according to the February Zillow® Real Estate Market Report[i]. The U.S. median monthly rent was $1,472 in February, up from $1,438 a year earlier. This translates to ...

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ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, has released its Q4 and Year-End 2018 U.S. Home Flipping Report, which shows that 207,957 U.S. single family homes and condos were flipped in 2018, down 4 percent from the 216,537 ...

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  Realtor.com has released new survey data revealing members of the millennial generation have increased their home buying purchase power and now boast the largest share of new home loans by dollar volume, larger than both Generation X and the ...

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Metrostudy’s 4Q18 survey of the Charlotte housing market shows that 2,785 new homes were started in the quarter – down 9.4% from 4Q17. The region also registered a 15.3% decrease in starts from 3Q18 to 4Q18 as the increases in ...

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ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, has released its Year-End 2018 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that home sellers in 2018 realized an average home price gain since purchase of $61,000, up from $50,000 last year ...

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  By David Donovan, Editor in Chief of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly An inconspicuous house, tucked away in a cul-de-sac just a few miles to the Charlotte side of Lake Wylie, is at the center of a legal odyssey, one ...

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