The Housing Market Is More Fragmented Than Ever—Here’s a New Way To Understand the Data

The Housing Market Is More Fragmented Than Ever—Here’s a New Way To Understand the Data

Is it a buyer’s market or a seller’s market? That’s the first question many people ask when they set out to buy or sell a home, but the answer has rarely been... Read more »
Rising Defaults on Office, Data Center Loan

Rising Defaults on Office, Data Center Loan

Rising Realty Partners defaulted on a $200 million loan on the West7Center, or what was once called the Garland Center, according to a notice of default and election to sell dated early... Read more »
Realtor.com data challenges Senate ban on big home investors

Realtor.com data challenges Senate ban on big home investors

Additionally, in 2015, institutional investors made up 12.2% of all investor purchases, but this share has shrunk to 7.5% in 2025, after rising to a peak of 16.3% in 2021.  “One of... Read more »
Amazon, Google, Microsoft Are Among Tech Giants Promising That Homeowners Won’t Pay Higher Electric Bills for Data Centers

Amazon, Google, Microsoft Are Among Tech Giants Promising That Homeowners Won’t Pay Higher Electric Bills for Data Centers

President Donald Trump has unveiled a sweeping new pledge from some of the nation’s biggest tech companies, promising that homeowners won’t foot the bill for power-hungry AI data centers. Under the deal... Read more »
Rental vacancy data shows progress that can keep mortgage rates lower 

Rental vacancy data shows progress that can keep mortgage rates lower 

Today, the rental vacancy data is standing at 7.2% when the lowest during COVID was 5.6%. Rent inflation took off during Covid, sending the core CPI inflation data year over year to... Read more »
Crow Developing 245MW Central Dallas Data Center Campus

Crow Developing 245MW Central Dallas Data Center Campus

Crow Holdings is moving ahead on a 245MW turnkey data center campus on an urban infill site in central Dallas, Texas. The multi-building data center campus will target a range of use... Read more »
ATTOM acquires ResiShares to expand data and analytics

ATTOM acquires ResiShares to expand data and analytics

ATTOM has acquired key assets of ResiShares, including its analytics platform and proprietary technology — a move aimed at expanding ATTOM’s data analytics capabilities across the real estate sector. The acquisition brings... Read more »
December jobs data continues to support lower mortgage rates

December jobs data continues to support lower mortgage rates

From BLS: Both total nonfarm payroll employment (+50,000) and the unemployment rate (4.4 percent) changed little in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in... Read more »
New homeowner data challenges mortgage rate lockdown theory

New homeowner data challenges mortgage rate lockdown theory

What the data shows Since the end of 2022, I’ve pointed out that people have continued to sell homes with low mortgage rates to buy others with higher rates. This is normal... Read more »
Why 2025’s strong purchase application data didn’t boost home sales

Why 2025’s strong purchase application data didn’t boost home sales

2025 Data Now I don’t count the last two weeks of the year because all the weekly housing data gets impacted by the holidays and the first few days of the new... Read more »