N13-1: In recent years, the number of distressed residential properties in the U.S. has increased. According to estimates from CoreLogic, distressed home sales,…
After many years of rapid expansion, national expenditures for home improvements and maintenance and repairs topped $325 billion in 2007 according to the Joint Center for…
The methodology presented in working paper W07-7 is not a forecast. Instead, it is an estimate of underlying demand for new housing units over the next several years if long-…
NOTE: Since the publication of this report, JCHS Household Growth Projections have been updated with new projections that supersede those found in the paper below.…
There are many causes to the collapse of the housing market and the recent financial turmoil, but the contribution of the CRA appears marginal. While banks did engage in…
This addendum to Research Note N07-1 provides an explanation of new changes to the benchmarked data series for the Joint Center for Housing Studies’ Leading Indicator of…
This paper describes the process for developing the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA), designed to estimate quarterly current and future home improvement…
This paper compares these new 2006 Hispanic projections to the earlier 2000 Hispanic projections. It incorporates both the new population projections released by the Census…
For decades, real estate and housing professionals have thought of the typical home buyer as a married couple, with or without children, either purchasing their first home or…
