I don't remember exact statistics, but I believe US home ownership was around 70% at the peak a couple of years ago and may now be approaching 60% which we haven't seen for decades.This must drive a strong rental market and maybe a housing boom when many of the "marginal 10%" become buyers again when lending loosens up.

Where do you come up with that statistic, Susan?

Greg,I do keep statistics on evictions.

It is simple statistics.

After all, the national average is around 10.2% right now and that is very bad.To place an entire state, or even an entire city into one lump statistic is foolish in my book.

This site offers a feature that shows overall market conditions for a designated area, as well as useful statistics for changes in market price to include graphs.

You can include some of the metropolitan statistical data in your market analysis.

Much of the information the agent will use to convince the ownership is statistical based.

I went on into a career in claims because I didn't feel like doing the 10 years of testing these people go through to become Fellows but I know their data and they know what is statistically likely to happen based on pre-existing conditions.

It came up in a discussion of why Mark Levin tends to use the word "statist".