According to ATTOM’s Q1 2022 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, 2.71 million mortgages secured by residential property were originated in Q1 2022 in the U.S. – down 18 percent from Q4 2021, the largest quarterly decrease since 2017, and down 32 percent from Q1 2021, the biggest annual drop since 2014. The report noted that the decline in residential mortgages, which marked the fourth straight quarterly decrease, resulted from double-digit downturns in purchase and refinance activity – even as home-equity lending rose.
ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today released its first-quarter 2022 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which shows that 2.71 million mortgages secured by residential property (1 to 4 units) were originated in the first quarter of 2022 in the United States. That figure was down 18 percent from the fourth quarter of 2021 – the largest quarterly decrease since 2017 – and down 32 percent from the first quarter of 2021 – the biggest annual drop since 2014.
ATTOM’s newly released Best Days to Sell A Home Analysis reveals that the months of May, June and July offer seller premiums of 10 percent or more above market value, based on home sales over the past 11 years – with the top 15 best days to sell in the month of May alone. According to ATTOM’s latest analysis of more than 46 million single family home and condo sales between 2011 and 2021, the Spring and Summer months continue to prove more profitable for home sellers.
ATTOM, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (www.realtytrac.com), the largest online marketplace for foreclosure and distressed properties, today released its Q1 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows a total of 78,271 U.S. properties with a foreclosure filing during the first quarter of 2022, up 39 percent from the previous quarter and up 132 percent from a year ago.
ATTOM’s February 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report revealed that lenders started the foreclosure process on 16,545 U.S. properties in February 2022. That figure was up 40 percent from January 2022 and 176 percent from February 2021. According to ATTOM’s latest foreclosure activity analysis, those states that saw the greatest numbers of foreclosures starts in February 2022 included: California (1,868 foreclosure starts); Florida (1,527 foreclosure starts); Texas (1,488 foreclosure starts); Illinois (1,168 foreclosure starts); and Ohio (1,144 foreclosure starts).
According to ATTOM’s February 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, foreclosure filings in February 2022 were up 11 percent from January 2022 and 129 percent from February 2021. ATTOM’s latest foreclosure activity analysis found there were a total of 25,833 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings reported in February 2022. The report noted that lenders repossessed 2,634 of those properties through completed foreclosures (REOs), down 45 percent from January 2022 but up 70 percent from February 2021.
ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its Year-End 2021 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that home sellers nationwide realized a profit of $94,092 on the typical sale in 2021, up 45 percent from $64,931 in 2020 and up 71 percent from $55,000 two years ago. Profits rose in more than 90 percent of housing markets with enough data to analyze and the latest figure, based on median purchase and resale prices, marked the highest level in the United States since at least 2008.
ATTOM, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (www.realtytrac.com), the largest online marketplace for foreclosure and distressed properties, today released its Year-End 2021 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings— default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 151,153 U.S. properties in 2021, down 29 percent from 2020 and down 95 percent from a peak of nearly 2.9 million in 2010, to the lowest level since tracking began in 2005.
According to ATTOM’s just released 2022 Rental Affordability Report, home ownership remains more affordable than renting, even though median home prices have increased more than average rents and more than averages wages in 88 percent of U.S. counties analyzed. ATTOM’s 2022 rental affordability report shows that owning a median-priced home is more affordable than the average rent on a three-bedroom property in 58 percent of the counties analyzed.
ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its 2022 Rental Affordability Report, which shows that owning a median-priced home is more affordable than the average rent on a three-bedroom property in 666, or 58 percent, of the 1,154 U.S. counties analyzed for the report. That means major home ownership expenses consume a smaller portion of average local wages than renting. Home ownership remains more affordable even though median home prices have increased more than average rents and more than averages wages in in 88 percent of the counties analyzed.
ATTOM’s just released Q4 2021 U.S. Home Affordability Report shows the latest pattern in home affordability – home prices still manageable, but getting less affordable – has resulted in major ownership costs on the typical home consuming 25.2 percent of the average national wage of $65,546. According to ATTOM’s latest home affordability analysis, the percent of wages needed to buy a median-priced single-family home is up from 24.4 percent in Q3 2021 and 21.5 percent in Q4 2020.
ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its third-quarter 2021 U.S. Home Flipping Report showing that 94,766 single-family houses and condominiums in the United States were flipped in the third quarter. Those transactions represented 5.7 percent of all home sales in the third quarter of 2021, or one in 18 transactions, a figure that was up for the second quarter in a row after a year of declines.
ATTOM’s just released Q3 2021 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report shows that overall mortgage lending was down 8 percent in Q3 2021, marking the second straight quarterly decline and the first time in more than two years that total lending decreased in two consecutive quarters. The Q3 2021 loan origination analysis conducted by ATTOM noted the quarterly decrease in mortgage lending was the first time in any year since at least 2000 that lending activity declined in both the second and third quarters, typically peak buying seasons.
ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its third-quarter 2021 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that profit margins on median-priced single-family home and condo sales across the United States jumped to 47.6 percent – the highest level since the end of the Great Recession a decade ago. In yet another sign of how strong the U.S. housing market remains, the report reveals that the typical home sale across the country during the third quarter of 2021 generated a profit of $100,178 as the national median home price hit a record of $310,500.
ATTOM’s just released Q3 2021 Special Report, spotlighting county-level housing markets around the U.S. that are more or less vulnerable to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, stated that New Jersey, Illinois and Delaware had the highest concentrations of the most at-risk markets in Q3 2021. The latest Coronavirus housing impact analysis, conducted by ATTOM, reported that the biggest clusters were in the New York City and Chicago areas, while the West remained far less exposed.
ATTOM, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (www.realtytrac.com), the largest online marketplace for foreclosure and distressed properties, released its Q3 2021 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 45,517 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — up 34 percent from the previous quarter and 68 percent from a year ago.
ATTOM’s newly released 2021 analysis of the best time of the year to buy a home reveals that homebuyers are fetching lower premiums during the month of October, as well as the winter months, compared to the spring buying season. The study of more than 33 million single family home and condo sales over the past eight years found that while the premium is still above market value, homebuyers that close in October are only dealing with a 2.9% premium, compared to the month of May, when homebuyers are experiencing an 11.5% premium.
ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its second-quarter 2021 U.S. Home Flipping Report showing that 79,733 single-family homes and condominiums in the United States were flipped in the second quarter. Those transactions represented 4.9 percent of all home sales in the second quarter of 2021, or one in 20 transactions – the first increase in more than a year. The second quarter home flipping rate was up from 3.5 percent, or one in every 29 home sales in the nation, during the first quarter of 2021.
ATTOM’s newly released Q3 2021 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report found that 1.3 million residential properties in the U.S. sit vacant, representing 1.4 percent, or one in 74 homes, across the nation. According to ATTOM’s latest vacant properties analysis, while the number of properties in the process of foreclosure in Q3 2021, is down 3.7 percent from Q2 2021 and down 0.2 percent from Q3 2020, among those pre-foreclosure properties, the number of those sitting vacant in Q3 2021 is down quarterly by 6.7 percent and annually by 5.3 percent.
ATTOM’s newly released Q2 2021 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report revealed that the number of mortgages secured by residential property originated in Q2 2021 in the U.S. was up 29 percent from Q2 2020, but down 3 percent from Q1 2021. According to ATTOM’s latest residential property mortgage origination analysis, the quarterly decline in overall mortgage lending in the U.S. marked the first decrease since early in 2020, as well as the first time that happened from a Q1 to a Q2 period since 2011.
