Housing Market & Affordable Housing Stock

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Housing Market & Affordable Housing Stock Resources

Investors Buy Record Share of Homes in 2021, Increasing Rental Prices

A new report by Redfin, “Real Estate Investors Are Buying a Record Share of U.S. Homes,” finds that investors bought 18.4% of all homes sold during the fourth quarter of 2021 – the highest ever share of homes purchased by investors. More than 80,000 homes were purchased by investors in the second,…

New Housing Report Released by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies

The Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University released a new report, America’s Rental Housing 2022, on January 21. The report finds that the rental housing market rebounded in 2021, resulting in low vacancy rates and increased rents, while many low-income renters continued to…

Airbnb Short-Term Rentals and Commercial Hosts Grow Rapidly in London

A report published in Housing Studies, “Home or hotel? A contemporary challenge in the use of housing stock,” examines the rapid growth of Airbnb short-term rentals in London since 2014. The number of listings grew from 13,327 to 79,761 (498%) between 2014 and 2019. The number of entire-home…