Information from the U.S. Census Bureau’s quarterly tax data revealed that property owners paid $594 billion in taxes over the four quarters ending in Q1 2019, the National ...
Read More »Dorian Making its Way Toward U.S. Mainland
Updated at 1:07 p.m. CDT Hurricane Dorian has been downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane and has been ravaging the Bahamas for hours, The New York Times is ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Examining Home Prices
CoreLogic will releases its monthly Home Price Index report on on Tuesday, September 3, after June’s report showed home prices rebounded. The report states that homes priced 25% ...
Read More »Hurricane Dorian Could Impact More than 600,000 Homes
Hurricane Dorian has its sights set on the Atlantic Coast of Florida, as new projections show it could make landfall Monday as a category 4 storm. CoreLogic is ...
Read More »Reversal of Course for Pending Home Sales
Pending home sales for July fell 2.5% and year-over-year contract signings fell 0.3%, reversing increases from the prior month, according to the National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home ...
Read More »Measuring Increases in Mortgage Debt
How much has mortgage debt increased and shifted through the years? A new report looks at what led to record-high mortgage debt.
Read More »Walk This Way? Home Prices Rising in Certain Areas
Redfin reports that home-sale prices in neighborhoods that are walkable increased annually 2.3% to an average of $343,900 in July, compared to 4.3% growth in car-dependent areas. The ...
Read More »Tappable Equity Grows
Tappable equity growth had been slowing in recent quarters due to rising interest rates and slowing home price growth, but Q2 2019 saw a turnaround.
Read More »Eye on the Industry: Leadership Change at Gateway
Gateway First Bank, one of the largest banks in the state of Oklahoma, announced the appointment of industry veteran Stephen Staid as its Chief Servicing Officer. As ...
Read More »Studying the Ban on Single-Family Housing
A study by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) states traditional housing zoning has been seen as a barrier to affordability, and that using policy to promote ...
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