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More counties have median home prices above their historic averages for typical wage earners, the company found.

While still greatly trailing year-ago numbers, mortgage foreclosure activity jumped in August from July as moratorium restrictions started lifting and courthouses reopened, according to Attom Data Solutions.

While the overall amount of foreclosures continued to decline due to the coronavirus moratorium, the share of zombie properties grew during the third quarter, according to Attom Data Solutions.

With mortgage rates tumbling near 3% in the second quarter, refinance originations spiked 400% in some housing markets, pushing overall volume to its highest point since 2009, according to Attom Data Solutions.

With the moratorium still in place, mortgage foreclosure activity fell 83% in July compared to the year before and 4% from June, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Rising equity levels lifted borrowers across the spectrum in the second quarter, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The overnight shift to working from home created a number of practical quandaries for mortgage firms large and small, according to a recent survey conducted by Arizent.

Born from the burgeoning real estate market that preceded the Great Recession, flipping homes has become a national fascination over the past two decades.

The returns on investment for homes sold in the second quarter of 2020 reached the highest level since the housing bubble collapsed, according to Attom Data Solutions.

A strong housing market prior to the pandemic and the subsequent coronavirus-related moratorium helped to pull foreclosure activity down to historic lows in the first half of 2020, though that could all change soon, according to Attom Data Solutions.

But the coronavirus put a hold on the market in April and remains an overhanging cloud for the future.

But the number of foreclosures and zombie properties may spike after the moratorium ends on June 30.

With mortgage rates reaching all-time lows in the opening quarter, refinance originations were up in 97% of housing markets during 1Q, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices have slightly declined in each of the last three quarters.

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Attom ranked 483 counties across the country based on 4Q foreclosure notices, local wages and other factors.

With interest rates at historic lows and recent increases in Tucson, Ariz., home values, many jittery homeowners impacted by the coronavirus outbreak are looking to refinance to get their hands on cash.

The dollar amount of fix-and-flip properties purchased using financing reached a 13-year high in 2019, but the share of flips financed was lower year-over-year, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Pittsburgh rose from the ash heap of the Great Recession and then became one of the hottest cities in the country for real estate flippers.

While the overall foreclosure rate fell, the share of zombie properties grew in the first quarter of 2020, according to Attom Data Solutions.