Top 25 counties--new-home
transactions.
Top 25 Counties--New-Home Transactions
First-Quarter 2008, Nationwide/Sort Order: Number of Loans
Rank County Count Dollar Amount Market Share Avg Amount
1 HARRIS, TX 3,101 $522,891 3.30% $168.620
2 MARICOPA, AZ 2,944 $666,452,468 3.13% $226,377
3 COOK, IL 2,660 $609,923,550 2.83% $229,295
4 DADE, FL 1,997 $480,801,462 2.12% $240,762
5 CLARK, NV 1,727 $410,952,217 1.84% $237,957
6 FORT BEND, TX 1,395 $281,646,710 1.48% $201,767
7 KING, WA 1,347 $364,322,036 1.43% $270,469
8 ORANGE 1,260 $275,753,281 1.34% $218,852
9 MECKLENBURG 1,244 $220,782,018 1.32% $177,478
NC
10 TARRANT, TX 1,237 $199,930,704 1.31% $161,625
11 RIVERSIDE, CA 1,161 $329,070,754 1.23% $283,437
12 BEXAR, TX 1,735 $195,178,948 1.21% $171,964
13 COLLIN, TX 1,100 $227,258,394 1.17% $206,599
14 TRAVIS, TX 955 $175,964,723 1.01% $184,256
15 LOS ANGELES, 949 $237,658,543 1.01% $250,430
CA
16 DENTON, TX 849 $168,698,667 0.90% $198,703
17 HILLSBOROUGH, 845 $167,062,481 0.90% $197,707
FL
18 DALLAS, TX 835 $147,037,287 0.89% $176.093
19 PINAL, AZ 749 $114,840,721 0.80% $153,325
20 FULTON, GA 732 $145,558,552 0.78% $198,850
21 WILLIAMSON, 727 $139,279,532 0.77% $191,581
TX
22 SAN 697 $181,972,824 0.74% $261,080
BERNARDINO,
CA
23 BROWARD, FL 676 $158,833,171 0.72% $234,960
24 WAKE, NC 675 $150,899,829 0.72% $223,555
25 DUVAL, FL 658 $102,605,632 0.70% $155,936
Other 62,450 $12,750,754,074 66.36% $204,175
Counties
TOTAL 94,105 $19,425,948,465 100.00% $206,428
SOURCE: First American CoreLogic, a First American company
(NYSE: FAF), Santa Ana, California. Marketrac information
is collected from county recorder offices in more than
1,100 counties, representing 85 percent of mortgage transactions
nationalwide. Leder participation in Marketrac rankings is
automatic. Rankings are established using the lender name
filed on recorded documents, and therefore do not include
non-recorded relationships that may include wholesale lenders
and third-party originators. This report includes recorded
reverse-mortgage amounts.
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