The U.S. housing market may be starting to get volatile. Fannie Mae's latest Home Purchase Sentiment Index report found that consumer confidence in housing took a hit in February. The worry ...
Read More »How Could Mortgage Rate Upswings Impact Housing?
Freddie Mac has released its February Insight report, which “looks into the effects of higher mortgage rates on home buyers, homeowners wishing to refinance, mortgage lenders, home builders and ...
Read More »Home Price Growth Slowing in Several Markets
Since the 2008 financial crisis, predicting where the housing market is headed next has become a game with very high stakes indeed. Tracking the interactions between home prices, ...
Read More »Existing-Home Sales Hit Biggest Slump in Three Years
Existing-home sales dropped both month-over-month and year-over-year in January 2018, experiencing their largest annual decline in over three years, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. NAR’s Existing-Home Sales calculations ...
Read More »Downsizing Expenses: What’s Triggering Inward Migration in the U.S.
The high cost of living in coastal metros such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York is triggering an inland migration toward more affordable cities. That’s the ...
Read More »Housing Values are Up, But Here’s the Bad News
With home values still on the upswing, housing insiders are noticing what could be some troubling signs in the distance. How long the party will last in anyone’s guess.
Read More »Interest Rate Uncertainty Spurs Stock Market Drops
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 1,200 points on Monday, after having dropped 1,500 points earlier in the day. This came on the heels of a 666-point ...
Read More »Homeownership, Vacancy Rates Flat Year-Over-Year
Both homeownership and homeowner vacancy rates were flat in year-over-year change during Q4 2017, according to the latest quarterly Residential Vacancies and Homeownership report released by the U.S. ...
Read More »Delaware Metro Led Nation in November Home Price Growth
Dover, Delaware, must have been doing something right in November 2017—it led the nation that month when it came to growth in home prices. With an estimated population ...
Read More »U.S. Housing Has Regained $9 Trillion, But Not Evenly
The U.S. housing market weathered a crippling blow a decade ago. Now the valuation lost in the recession has been recovered. But not everyone is pulling the same weight.
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