John Burns Real Estate Consulting
Student Debt’s Drag on Homeownership
By John Burns, CEO For eight years in a row now, homeownership has fallen in the first quarter, and we expect another small...
John Burns REC: Only a Few Bubble Signs Brewing
By John Burns, CEO Once again, we have completed our annual housing bubble check-in. Assessing the criteria that 73 industry executives identified in...
John Burns: Shifting Family Structure Hurting Homeownership
By John Burns, CEO When researching our new book Big Shifts Ahead, we learned that 40% of all kids are born to an...
John Burns: A Career Woman’s Perspective on Home Buying
By Kristine Smale, Manager It is no secret that women’s role in the workplace has been steadily rising since the 1950s. In fact,...
John Burns Real Estate Consulting: Our 2016 Track Record
By Rick Palacios Jr., Director of Research With a lot of insight from our clients and survey participants who build and finance a...
John Burns: Lack of Supply Drives Prices Way Up
By Pete Reeb, Principal New homes in California are now $300,000 more expensive than in Florida and Texas. When supply doesn’t meet demand,...
John Burns: Wall Street Has It Wrong: Luxury Home Sales Increasing
By John Burns, CEO Luxury home sales have increased, contrary to the opinions of most Wall Street analysts and press reports. Here are...
Pacific Union Forecast: This is Just a Flattening
By Jacob Bourne For the third year running, Pacific Union International has presented a live economic forecast presentation for the region, looking outward...
John Burns: E-Commuting Creating Demand for Better In-Home Office Space
By Adam Artunian, Senior Manager 39% of new home shoppers work at home at least one day per week. Almost 25% of shoppers...
John Burns: Mortgages More Available than Many Think
By Brenda Garcia Lemus, Research Analyst Our home-builder clients sell hundreds of homes every weekend to buyers with 5% down payments and below...
John Burns: The Housing Cycle: Market by Market
By Rick Palacios Jr., Director of Research Where are we in the housing cycle? This, by far, is the question we get asked...
John Burns: The Foreclosure Generation: From 4% Above Norm to 7% Below Norm Homeownership
By John Burns, CEO Those born in the 1970s have fallen from having a 4% higher than normal homeownership rate in 2004 to...
