Housing-News-Report-July-2017

HOUSINGNEWS REPORT

SPOTLIGHT: MEMPHIS

A NEW TWIST ON HOME FLIPS IN MEMPHIS BY JOEL CONE, STAFF WRITER

MEMPHIS HOME FL IPPING RATE AT NEW ALL-TIME HIGH

Memphis is the epicenter of an emerging trend in home flipping — flip-to-rent.

SINGLE FAMILY & CONDO FLIPS

FLIP SHARE OF SALES

900

16.0%

800

14.0%

The Memphis metro area posted the nation’s highest home flipping rate as a percentage of home sales in Q1 2017 (15.1 percent), more than twice the national average of 6.7 percent, according to ATTOM Data Solutions. The 15.1 percent home flipping rate in Memphis even exceeded the previous peak of 14.8 percent in Q1 2004, in the midst of the last housing boom.

700

12.0%

600

10.0%

500

8.0%

400

6.0%

300

4.0%

200

2.0%

100

0.0%

0

15

JULY 2017 | ATTOM DATA SOLUTIONS

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