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Family Tree of Hottest Homebuyer Last Names in 2017

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Eight of Top 10 Hottest Homebuyer Last Names of Chinese Origin; Smith the Hottest Homebuyer Last Name in Eight of 64 Metro Areas Analyzed

Irvine, CA – May 24, 2018 (PRNewswire) ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier multi-sourced property database, today released its first-ever analysis of homebuyer last names, which shows that while home sales nationwide decreased 4 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, sales to buyers with last names of Lin, Zhang, Wu, Liu and Huang increased by more than 20 percent.

Meanwhile, sales to buyers with last names of Burns, Porter, Jenkins and Cole decreased by 15 percent or more from 2016 to 2017.

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For this analysis, ATTOM looked at buyer last names on more than 2.3 million single family home sales deeds nationwide in 2016 and 2017 to determine the hottest names based on year-over-year percentage increase in home purchases. The analysis also looked at family name origin information from Ancestry.com for the hottest homebuyer names, as well as where these buyer names are most active by local market.

Eight of top 10 hottest homebuyer last names of Chinese origin
The top 8 hottest homebuyer last names in 2017 were of Chinese origin, with the ninth and 10th on the list of Korean and Vietnamese origin. The featured infographic maps out family name origin information for all 24 buyer last names with at least 1,000 single family home purchases in 2017 and an increase of at least 1 percent in home purchases compared to 2016.

Click here to view a larger version of the infographic.

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Liu the hottest homebuyer last name in three states
The hottest homebuyer last names in 2017 varied by state, from Liu in Washington to Larson in Florida, and from Mitchell in Nevada to Morales in Colorado. To determine hottest homebuyer last names for each state we looked at names with at least 1,000 home purchases nationwide and at least 50 home purchases statewide in 2017.

One buyer last name registered as hottest in three states — Liu in Maryland (2017 home purchases up 74 percent), Pennsylvania (2017 home purchases up 64 percent), and Washington (2017 home purchases up 68 percent). Eight buyer names came out on top in two states — Anderson in Montana and Oklahoma; Davis in Arkansas and Kentucky; Ellis in Illinois and Virginia; Larson in California and Florida; Miller in Kansas and New Mexico; Nguyen in Louisiana and Oregon; and Walker in Alabama and South Carolina.

This interactive heat map shows the hottest buyer names in each state.

Smith hottest homebuyer last name in eight of 64 metro areas analyzed
Hottest homebuyer last names also varied by metro area — Li in Dallas, Chicago and Houston; Peterson in Los Angeles; Barnes in Atlanta; Castillo in Washington, D.C.; Reyes in Miami; and Yang in New York.

The hottest homebuyer last name was Smith in eight of 64 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed by ATTOM — Dayton, Ohio, Des Moines, Iowa, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Greeley, Colorado, North Port-Sarasota, Florida, Spokane, Washington, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Worcester, Massachusetts.

The last name Johnson was the hottest homebuyer last name in five metro areas, with Brown, Williams and Li all registering as hottest in three of the 64 metro areas.

This interactive visual shows the hottest buyer names in select metro areas.

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ATTOM Data Solutions provides premium property data to power products that improve transparency, innovation, efficiency and disruption in a data-driven economy. ATTOM multi-sources property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard, and neighborhood data for more than 155 million U.S. residential and commercial properties covering 99 percent of the nation’s population. A rigorous data management process involving more than 20 steps validates, standardizes and enhances the data collected by ATTOM, assigning each property record with a persistent, unique ID — the ATTOM ID. The 9TB ATTOM Data Warehouse fuels innovation in many industries including mortgage, real estate, insurance, marketing, government and more through flexible data delivery solutions that include bulk file licenses, APIs, market trends, marketing lists, match & append and more.

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The Legacy of Me

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Stephen M. FellsHere’s a thought; with the advent of ‘social’ your great-great grandchildren will know significantly more about you than all of the information you’ll ever know about your grand parents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents combined.

We now live in a world where every tweet and status update and ‘like’ and image is stored and backed-up and copied for ever and a day which leads to a question; forget carbon foot prints for a moment, what impression will your online footprint make? Or put another way, how are your current day to day actions impacting your legacy?

This is a timely question especially when one considers that only five years ago none of us had even heard of Facebook or twitter or ‘social’. Only in the last ten years have we seen mobile phones and the instant connectivity they provide go mainstream and many correctly argue we are still at the beginning of the socialization process.

So what can we expect in the next five years? The next ten? Dare I say the next fifteen years, approximately the same amount of time since Al Gore invented the Internet? 😉

Lets look at legacy in more detail. As I get further from my 40’s and nearer to my 50’s my world looks different. People from my school days look a lot older (I don’t of course…), some are no longer with us and my life becomes ever more like my fathers. I can’t stop that but what I can do is help future generations of ‘Fellsys’ understand what my life is like. I can tell them what is important to me. I can highlight my successes and failures, my proudest and darkest moments. I can give them a better picture of the whole me, in essence I can help sculpture my legacy.

How? By being aware of my social footprint and by adding to it in other available digital formats. I’ve long thought that there is a market for an app that records our personal lifeline. The app would detail the obvious facts like dates of birth and marriage but also thoughts on life milestones. In fact, to be truly representative, it would also need to include my thoughts on life events and experiences. As an ex-police officer I have countless stories that entertain, intrigue and sometimes scare my friends but all of those stories will die with me. I’ve lived in three countries and have many memories about my time in each and the reasons behind my journey. And of course I have experiences and feelings tied into the birth of my children, my first job and my hopes for the future. They all make up the picture of what is ‘me’. And so (with thanks to Matthew Shadbolt) to a great Web based program from Intel; “Museum of Me”

In a very entertaining way the program draws on your Facebook account to highlight those people that you interact with the most. Using your photos and status updates it presents a collage of your life in video format. Some have called it creepy but personally I think it’s a great first step towards real time genealogy and ultimately seeing what our legacy might look like from another’s perspective.

To create your own museum click here. Enjoy 🙂