Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Housing micromarkets bring relevance to local market stats

The next useful layer of housing data is hyperlocal: subdivisions, developments, buildings and competitive sets that can matter more to an individual property than broad geographic averages. “Real estate is local” may be the industry’s most durable cliché because it is true. The problem is that local can still be remarkably broad. A city contains

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Investor share slips to 27% of single-family purchases, Cotality says

Investors accounted for 27% of U.S. single-family home purchases from March through June 2026, down from 28% at the end of the first quarter, according to a Sept. 3 analysis from Cotality. The decline follows a typical seasonal pattern, as owner-occupant buyers become more active during the summer months. Investor activity, however, remains above the

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