John Burns Real Estate Consulting
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: 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...
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...
John Burns: Starter Home Solutions in Expensive Markets
By Adam Artunian, Senior Manager High land prices in good locations generally force builders to build expensive homes. However, a number of builders...
John Burns: Labor Force Shortage Ahead
By Chris Porter, Chief Demographer A surge in retirees (people turning 65) will slow the growth of workers in the US. In 2000,...
John Burns: Will Boomer Homeownership Fall?
by Jeff Kottmeier We believe it will. Seven of us attended the National Multifamily Housing Conference, one of the most informative conferences of...
