Despite the fact that interest rates have doubled over the last 12 months, inventories have contracted by double-digits from 2021, and inflation has torn apart most prospective buyers' budgets, existing home sales totaled 5.02 million in 2022. On a month-to-month...

A total of 324,237 U.S. properties reported foreclosure filing in 2022, which is up 115% from 2021. This number is only 89% of the 2.9 million foreclosures reported in 2010 in the midst of the crash. The 324,237 foreclosure properties in 2022 total 0.23% of all U.S....

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Northeast and Northwest are losing residents.

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New Jersey's rate of zombie properties is 0.41%. The national rate for zombie properties is 1.26%. New Jersey has the fifth smallest percentage of zombie properties. Some counties in New Jersey have a higher rate of zombie properties than others. Cape May has the...

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Trend Watch Before any major shift occurs within a major market, there is movement that appears in the adjacent territories. As in the case of the recent sellers' market, which dominated real estate since 2020, there is a new shift occurring in some of the less active...

Nationally, homeowner equity gained $34,300 in the third quarter of 2022, since the third quarter of 2021. Approximately 63% of all properties in the United States hold mortgages, with equity increasing 15.8% year over year. This represents a collective gain of $2.2...

Bergen and Passaic Counties Bergen County Single Family Homes for November Key Metrics         2021       2022     Change...