Government and public sources
- HUD Fair Market Rents for rent benchmarks and rent-limit context.
- HUD Housing Affordability Data System for affordability and renter-cost-burden context.
- U.S. Census Housing Vacancies and Homeownership Survey for vacancy and homeownership trend context.
- FHFA House Price Index for official home-price trend data.
- FHFA House Price Index datasets for downloadable house-price data.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey for weekly mortgage-rate context.
- CFPB Loan Estimate guidance for mortgage-fee and loan-document context.
- IRS Publication 527 for U.S. residential rental property tax basics.
Industry and research sources
- National Association of Realtors research and statistics for housing-market and buyer-seller reports.
- Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies: The State of the Nation's Housing 2025 for academic housing-market analysis.
- Urban Institute Housing Finance Policy Center for policy and mortgage-market research.
- Urban Institute Housing Finance at a Glance for housing-finance indicators.
- Zillow Research for housing and rent trend commentary.
- Redfin Data Center for listing, price, and migration trend data.
- CoreLogic Intelligence for property-data and housing-risk research.
How Dealarc uses sources
Dealarc uses external sources for context, not as a shortcut for underwriting. Official data is most useful for broad assumptions like rent context, vacancy trends, mortgage-rate environment, and national price movement. Property-level decisions still depend on local comps, lender quotes, insurance pricing, contractor bids, and investor-specific risk tolerance.
- Use public and academic sources to sanity-check assumptions.
- Prefer current local data when underwriting a real deal.
- Treat platform outputs as decision support, not guaranteed projections.
Source selection principle: Dealarc prefers official public data or established industry research when citing external market context.