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Deciding to buy a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most people ever make and can be intimidating, especially for first-time buyers. CoreLogic’s data-driven, expert insights into housing market trends helps home shoppers navigate what can sometimes be a difficult and stressful process. CoreLogic’s blogs explore the topics that are most important to homebuyers, including national, state and metro level price changes; interest rate movements and national migration patterns. Our research equips homebuyers with the facts that helps make one of life’s largest decisions a bit easier. Read previous CoreLogic blog posts for homebuyers.
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September 26, 2018

5 Tips for Roof Repair

What do you do after a catastrophe? After a catastrophe hits, the real journey begins. It can take months to repair damage inflicted upon your home and knowing how to guard against unnecessary expenses and preserve the integrity of your home is critical in the days and weeks after the dust settle...

September 21, 2018

Podcast – Impact of Drones on Housing [Part 2]

 Join Mike Wynn and Neil Pearson, as they continue their discussion on drones impacting the housing industry.  In this episode the conversation centers on the security, privacy, and regulation of drones. Amanda Rabideau, HostPrincipal, CoreLogic, Innovation and Solutions Excellence Mike...

September 14, 2018

Podcast – Impact of Drones on Housing [Part 1]

Join Drone Deploy CEO Mike Winn, and Neil Pearson, Principal of Data Strategy at CoreLogic, as they discuss the evolution of commercial drones, new uses, and how drones are disrupting the industry. Amanda Rabideau, HostPrincipal, CoreLogic, Innovation and Solutions Excellence Mike Winn, GuestCEO,...

July 24, 2018

What Does the Future Hold for the Mortgage Origination Process?

Reimagining Mortgage Underwriting Technology has transformed our daily lives. Take, for example, the shopping experience with online marketplaces selling everything from groceries to furniture, even cars, and industrial machinery, making any purchase only a few clicks away. The digital transforma...

March 9, 2018

Selecting the Right Valuation Solution for Your Loan Portfolio

Regular valuations are an extremely important and healthy practice in mortgage portfolio monitoring from both a business and regulatory standpoint. With home prices on an upward trend for nearly the past decade, it is easy to overlook the importance of regular portfolio monitoring. In this cyclic...

February 28, 2018

Special Report: Evaluating the Housing Market Since the Great Reces...

The special report reviews the evolution of the U.S. housing market, from the April 2006 bubble, to the March 2011 market-bottom, to the October 2017 peak (post-Great Recession). It analyzes the current housing market, on a national, state and city level since the recession. It takes into conside...

October 13, 2017

Public Listing Comments Can Have an Impact on Closing Price

Some Homes Sell at Higher Prices Than Others for a Reason When a property is listed and sold, its closing price is usually different from its original list price since it is challenging to set a list price, even for an experienced realtor. Besides physical features there are many other factors to...

October 9, 2017

Will Putting “Won’t Last” in a Housing Listing Comment Help It Sell?

The Answer is Yes, But There is More to It About a year ago, I published a blog on the impact that listing comments have on days on market: Public Listing Comments Can Have an Impact on Days on Markets. I soon realized there was confusion about the analysis, as I received inquiries asking wh...

June 21, 2017

Escrow vs. Non-Escrow Mortgages: The Trend is Clear

Escrow accounts increasingly more popular among Borrowers and Lenders For the past several years there has been a strong push in the mortgage servicing industry to move borrowers to mortgage escrow accounts. A recent analysis by CoreLogic shows that currently almost 80 percent of all borrowers ar...

September 19, 2016

Health of the Housing Market in the Top 100 Cities – Part II

13 Markets Overvalued Based on Fundamental and Speculative Metrics In Part I [1] of this series we evaluated the top 100 Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) using CoreLogic Market Condition Indicators (price-to-income) and the price-to-rent metrics which classified 21 markets as overva...

August 30, 2016

Health of the Housing Market in the Top 100 Cities – Part I

21 Markets Overvalued Based on Fundamental Factors of Price-to-Income and Price-to-Rent Talking about housing bubbles usually raises questions, concerns and eyebrows. However, for the past several years, home prices have continued to rise throughout the country, with many markets close to or abov...

August 12, 2016

Say what?! Public Listing Comments Can Have an Impact on Days on Ma...

Some Houses Selling Faster Than Others for a Reason When a property is listed, its days on market can be determined by multiple factors. Obviously if it’s priced lower than its fair market value then it tends to sell quickly. In addition to listing prices, housing characteristics, as well as amen...