Real estate data provider ATTOM on Thursday released its Mid-Year 2025 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 187,659 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — in the first six months of 2025. That figure is up 5.8% from the same period a year […]
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International homebuyers purchased $56 billion worth of U.S. existing homes between April 2024 and March 2025 — a 33.2% increase from the previous year, according to a report released Monday by the National Association of Realtors. The number of properties bought by foreign buyers rose to 78,100 during the 12-month period, up 44% from the
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New issuance of agency mortgage servicing pools is down sharply — $555 billion through the first six months of 2025 versus $1.1 trillion in the same period last year — and is reflective of a sluggish origination environment. That’s according to Recursion‘s Agency Mortgage Servicer/Seller Report for July 2025. Prepayments were also down to $301
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The U.S. faced a shortfall of 4.7 million homes in 2023 — the largest housing deficit on record — according to a new Zillow analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Persistent inventory shortages continue to drive the national housing affordability crisis, limiting access to homeownership and forcing millions of people to share homes with non-relatives.
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After a few months of relative calm, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of new tariffs on key trade partners while indicating an extension of deadlines for most countries to reach a trade deal with the U.S.. Trump paused his new global tariff regime less than a week after it was announced on April 2,
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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) praised the narrow passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a sweeping tax reform measures that includes a slate of real estate-related provisions. Last week, the legislation passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 218-214, which followed a 50-50 vote in the Senate
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When Elon Musk was given control over much of the federal government staffing levels at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, real estate professionals in Washington, D.C., wondered if the sweeping layoffs would impact the housing market. While everyone has taken a wait-and-see approach, it’s getting hard to deny that people are moving
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The rapid rise in home prices and housing costs over the past five years has strained affordability in every part of the country, but a new study seeks to put a finer point on which metropolitan areas are getting hit the hardest. Realtor.com calculated the share of income a typical household spends on housing by
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The housing affordability crisis often conjures images of coastal urban cities with acute housing supply shortages and heavy land-use regulations. While these places do tend to have the highest home prices, it’s not where costs are rising the most. That’s according to a sprawling new study from JPMorgan Chase that examines affordability from a number
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The story for the housing market over the past three years has been, “Home sales are down, home prices are up.” Because inventory was so restricted after the pandemic, prices pushed higher even as demand weakened. That story may finally be inverting as unsold inventory of homes is now great enough that home prices are
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