Michael Crist

Because housing is a big part of many Americans’ financial wellbeing the ability to access homeownership – housing affordability – is an important topic. The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Housing Affordability Index is a great way to simply understand how affordable the housing market is or isn’t for the typical home buyer and how… Continue Reading A More Encompassing Look at Housing Affordability: REALTORS® Affordability Distribution Curve and Score

February 15th is Singles Awareness Day! Here is some information how single men and women are taking part in real estate from the National Association of REALTORS®’ 2016 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.  Powered by WPeMatico

This blog post was written by Managing Director of Housing Research, Danielle Hale, and Data Analyst, Hua Zhong. Home listings went under contract slightly more often on Mondays followed by Fridays and Tuesdays in 2016.  Here is the data: As we start the New Year, this is a good time to take a look and… Continue Reading EHS in 2016 by the Numbers – Part 4 – Contracts

It might seem sort of silly and an odd exercise in nostalgia, but the most iconic of candybar phones — the Nokia 3310 — is rumored to be making a comeback. If you think about it, though, there’s definitely a market for it: those who need little more than an emergency phone, those who are… Continue Reading A Classic Mobile Phone Is Set To Return and More In Five for Wednesday

NAR released a new Aspiring Home Buyers Profile that captures the consumer sentiment of the housing market for non-homeowners—defined as those that rent and those that live with someone else (such as family and friends) rent-free. The report is aptly named, for nearly nine in 10 non-homeowners expressed the desire to own a home of… Continue Reading Affordability is Main Hurdle for Aspiring Home Buyers

Using data from the 2016 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers we can break down household composition, and the relationship it has to home purchasing choices. Among all recent home buyers, 66 percent were married couples, 17 percent were single females, eight percent were unmarried couples, and seven percent were single males. Three percent of… Continue Reading Home Buyer Households: Valentine’s Day 2017