Tag Archives: Home Flipping

High rates and low inventories are limiting home-flipping potential; this could hamper both large-scale corporate participants and smaller mom-and-pop operations.

Flipping activity was among the highest on record during the third quarter, yet the number of flips decreased. Click through to find out what challenges are slowing flippers down.

Homeowners near certain grocery stores, such as Trader Joe’s, report a massive impact on their home values.

A new report finds that home flipping nationwide was down in 2020, hitting a four-year low in an otherwise banner year for housing.

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Lack of housing inventory and rising home prices prove to be favorable conditions for flippers.

Lack of housing inventory and rising home prices prove to be favorable conditions for flippers.

Even as the demand for rental housing has increased in most markets, investors continue to prefer to flip houses due to a recent combination of price appreciation and decreased inventory, according to Auction.com.

The recent hot spots for flipping include California and parts of the South, according to Trulia. Six of the top 10 metro areas where flips represented the highest share of home sales were located in California, two were in Tennessee (Nashville and Knoxville), and Florida (Fort Lauderdale) and Massachusetts (Cambridge-Newton-Framingham) had one each in the top 10.

Though various reports have suggested in the last year that flipping opportunities are dwindling, Auction.com's latest survey affirms that flipping is still going strong: 50 percent of investors said they intended to flip the homes they purchased, compared to 47.3 percent who said they intended to rent them out (2.7 percent were undecided).