Trends The 9 Most Popular States for Migrating Americans A majority of Western states had nearly 5 percent of their population moving into their state from the previous year, and Washington, D.C....
Trends Top 11 Housing Markets for Starter Homes First-time homebuyers account for over one-third of home purchasers in the U.S., while entry-level homes represent less than 26 percent of...
Trends Trading in: More Americans Are Willing to Give up Living Space, Driving for Walkability Over 50 percent of Americans polled in a new National Association of Realtors survey said they would accept living in neighborhoods with...
Trends 2017 Housing Market Was the Best in a Decade Looking forward to 2018, Leonard Kiefer, deputy chief economist for Freddie Mac, says that tax policy reforms will be the 'wild card'...
Trends In Some West Coast Cities, Renting is More Affordable Than Homeownership The Urban Institute says it's more affordable to own a home with a mortgage than it is to rent in the U.S. In a new study, the findings...
Trends Side Effects: Soaring Rents and 'Plummeting' Fertility Rates in Big Cities A team of economists have found that the zoning, and restrictive land-use regulations that make cities such as San Francisco and New York so...
Trends 'The Time Is Here' for 'Cutting-Edge' Apartment Tech Digital amenities like automated storage units, camera-equipped refrigerators, and convertible furniture operated by mobile phone are now...
Trends California Homeowners Worry Insurers Will Drop Coverage Due to Historic Wildfires Drier weather, and volatile weather patterns often related to climate change have led insurers to turn to new computer models that provide...
Trends High-Income Households Drove Nearly 30 Percent of Rental Growth Over the Past Decade According to a new report from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, this trend has fueled development of luxury apartment buildings...
Trends New Rental Housing Growth Slowing Down for the First Time Since 2005 Twelve years of growth has permanently changed the rental market's demographics -- older, wealthier, whiter, and with more children. ...