The foundation of wealth-building throughout the country for the masses remains firmly entrenched in real estate. A first-class asset, real estate now represents 17% of the country’s GDP ...
Read More »Cause and Effect: Title Insurance Premiums
Reverberations and repercussions from the pandemic continue to move through the real estate market. The latest news of such comes from American Land Title Association (ALTA) who found ...
Read More »Is This the Beginning of a Buyer’s Market?
Homebuyers are beginning to take back the wheel from homesellers, who have mostly prevailed over the last two years, as Redfin reports that more sellers are dropping the ...
Read More »MBA Sees New Mortgage Payments Rise
As stated in Issac Newton’s Third Law, For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. While Newton’s laws were meant to be applied to the world ...
Read More »Owners See Wisdom in Renovating Existing Properties
Still hot as ever, the housing market is continuing to find new highs in 2022 but consumers now overwhelmingly agree that the time is right to mold the ...
Read More »In a Post-Pandemic Housing Market, Opportunity Knocks—Downtown
In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic is largely behind us. Even so, ripples from early in the pandemic are still affecting the market today. According to a new ...
Read More »Housing Inventory, Prices on the Rise in April
During a month that typically sees increasing sales in the lead up to the summer busy season, April 2022 saw sales remain essentially flat from March, increasing by ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Examining the Second Half of 2022
WFG’s Patrick Stone and Dr. Bill Conerly share their insights and forecast for the mortgage market for the remainder of 2022 during an upcoming webinar.
Read More »Report: Origination Activity to Total $2.7 Trillion in 2022
Due to a litany of factors, Fannie Mae cut their predictions for origination activity, total sales, and GDP for 2022 and 2023.
Read More »Is the Housing Market Finding a Not-so-New Normal?
According to First American Chief Economist Mark Fleming, rising rates may cool house price appreciation, and bring a new norm to the market.
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