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Another Top-10 List — Most (and Least) Satisfied Residential Rental Markets
As the homeownership rate has dropped from the peak in 2004 at almost 70 percent to 63.7 percent today –the lowest in 25 years — the percentage of renters has risen to the highest level in that same...
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The Leisure and Hospitality Segment — More than 1 Out of Every 10 Jobs in the...
Happy 4th of July to all. Safe travels to those 41.9 million American’s on the road, in the water or up in the air this three-day weekend. Now imagine the impact on real estate in the Leisure and...
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Destination Travel Preferences Across Generations
The peak summer travel season is upon us. With the Travel and Leisure segment making up almost one out of every nine jobs, marketing to those using these services is BIG business. See the July 4th blog...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Housing Markets for Growth and Stability
The often quoted Mae West had a line that always does not apply to real estate: “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” After the past housing bubble, many would agree that highly accelerated...
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July 2015 Existing Home Sales Most Since February 2007 – Up 10.3 Percent from...
July 2015 existing home sales reached a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) of 5.59 million, the most since February 2007 and were up 10.3 percent from a year ago according to the National...
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Searching for an Apartment in Today’s Internet and Social Media Landscape
Renters represent a growing segment of the housing scene in the U.S. as homeownership erodes – now at the lowest level since 1967 at 63.4 percent. That means that more than one-third of all households...
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Another Top-10 List – Cities Where Millennials Make an Impact on Housing
Much has been said about Millennials regarding where they live, where they want to live, who they live with, whether they rent or own both now and in the future. Millennials are now the largest...
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Another Top-10 List — States With the Greatest Home Price Gains
The demand for most real estate is local. Thus, at least for housing, it is local supply and demand that affects both rents and values (excluding destination and vacation properties). In the very first...
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Another Top-10 List — Best (and Worst) Cities for Real Residential Estate...
I define an investment as something that yields cash flow and ideally can also appreciate in value. Among the more common investment options today, real estate is very attractive. Bonds are essentially...
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Another Top-10 List — Most Affordable Places for Millennials to Buy a Home
The future demand for housing centers on the largest demographic cohort the U.S. has ever seen – Millennials. There are an estimated 83.1 million millennials today from 18 to 34 years of age – more...
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Timing is Everything! — Typical Equity Gains in Home Ownership
Timing is everything. Timing even permeates our personal lives. From love to restaurant reservations to even entering the freeway. Timing is everything. The same is true when you buy and ultimately...
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Another Top-10 List — Lowest (and Highest) Down Payment States for 30-Year...
For many want-to-be homeowners, it’s not the ability to make the monthly principle-interest-taxes-and-insurance payments, but rather the lack of down payment that is blocking them from owning a home of...
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October 2015 Existing Home Sales Up 3.9 Percent Year-Over-Year, But Down 3.4...
Existing home sales increased from 5.16 million on a Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate (SAAR) in October 2014 to 5.36 million in October 2015, a gain of 3.9 percent according to the National...
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Another Top-10 List — Home Price Performance for the 10 Most Populous States
The Jones on Real Estate Blog commenced with what I call the TINSTAANREM clause — There Is No Such Thing As A National Real Estate Market. All real estate is local in nature. That Axiom remains today,...
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November 2015 New Home Sales Remain Strong – But These Metrics Are Not...
On initial glance, new home sales appear to have weathered the storm much better than existing home sales. November new home sales saw year-over year gains of 9.1 percent and up 4.3 percent...
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Another Top-10 List — Best and Worst Rental Markets for Millennials
Millennials are the largest population cohort the U.S. has ever seen with an estimated 83.1 million from 18 to 34 years of age (U.S. Census Bureau). As such, they are having the largest impact on...
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December 2015 Existing Housing Sales Robust — Up 7.7 Percent Year-Over-Year...
Existing home sales in December 2015 came roaring back to a seasonally-adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) of 5.46 million according to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). Sales were up 7.7...
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A Look at Refinance and Purchase Lending Expectations for 2016
Transaction volume is the backbone for real estate professionals. Sellers selling, buyers buying — and for those impacted by refinancing – borrowers with mortgage loans refinancing are key to the...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Cities for Young Families
Last week I spoke at multiple events in Southwest Florida along the Gulf Coast. Not surprising, many of the markets were very pricey. Naples-Marco Island, for example, ended up December 2015 with...
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DrTCJ’s Tweets — January 2016 – February 11 2016
For those of you that do not Tweet – you should consider doing so. If you want to talk about effective bang for the buck, the 140 total characters, letters, numbers and spaces of a Tweet on Twitter...
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