Top 25 counties--new-home transactions.
Fourth-Quarter 2007, Nationwide / Sort Order: Number of Loans
Market Avg.
Rank County Count Dollar Amount Share Amount
1 MARICOPA, AZ 7,489 $1,832,825,750 3.84% $244,736
2 HARRIS, TX 6,274 $1,032,235,195 3.22% $164,526
3 CLARK, NV 3,975 $1,072,474,606 2.04% $269,805
4 RIVERSIDE, CA 3,478 $1,066,285,789 1.79% $306,580
5 COOK, IL 3,446 $867,712,656 1.77% $251,803
6 BEXAR, TX 3,196 $527,999,788 1.64% $165,206
7 DADE, FL 3,001 $756,226,261 1.54% $251,991
8 TARRANT, TX 2,808 $445,557,688 1.44% $158,674
9 MECKLENBURG, NC 2,795 $521,614,017 1.43% $186,624
10 LOS ANGELES, CA 2,675 $908,644,947 1.37% $339,680
11 SAN DIEGO, CA 2,494 $865,844,290 1.28% $347,171
12 PINAL, AZ 2,331 $396,599,200 1.20% $170,141
13 FORT BEND, TX 2,108 $406,509,905 1.08% $192,842
14 ORANGE, FL 2,058 $469,658,938 1.06% $228,211
15 COLLIN, TX 1,989 $382,446,792 1.02% $192,281
16 DALLAS, TX 1,931 $358,564,823 0.99% $185,689
17 TRAVIS, TX 1,893 $356,234,732 0.97% $188,185
18 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 1,860 $548,868,194 0.95% $295,090
19 WAKE, NC 1,793 $371,485,047 0.92% $207,186
20 KING, WA 1,720 $524,427,915 0.88% $304,900
21 HILLSBOROUGH, FL 1,618 $344,488,222 0.83% $212,910
22 DUVAL, FL 1,496 $246,124,824 0.77% $164,522
23 WILLIAMSON, TX 1,409 $236,937,364 0.72% $168,160
24 BROWARD, FL 1,396 $363,957,891 0.72% $260,715
25 FULTON, GA 1,384 $279,737,103 0.71% $202,122
Other Counties 128,191 $29,216,812,381 65.80% $227,916
TOTAL 194,808 $44,400,274,318 100.00% $227,918
SOURCE: First American CoreLogic, a First American company (NYSE: FAF),
Santa Ana, California. Marketrac[R] information is collected from county
recorder offices in more than 1,100 counties, representing 85 percent of
mortgage transactions nationwide. Lender 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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