Despite rising mortgage rates and declining purchase originations, refinances are on the rise.
Read More »Home Price Index Hits 30-month High
A recent Home Price NSA Index revealed a 5.8-percent jump over a year prior, marking its highest point in 30 months.
Read More »February Existing Home Sales Drop Slightly
Reports show a healthy demand for homes, but higher prices may be reducing sales.
Read More »Home Sales Set New Records
RE/MAX tracked new records for home sales in January, even as it found fewer homes listed and inventory on the decline.
Read More »Saving Property Values: Clearboarding vs. Plywood
According to a white paper released on Monday, vacant or abandoned homes lose $70,000 of their value, but using clearboarding instead of plywood to secure residencies is helping to mitigate losses.
Read More »Top 20 Hottest Housing Markets in the U.S.
Redfin measured housing markets' hotness based on the percentage of homes most likely to go under contract within 14 days. In the top three markets, more than 60 percent of homes met this criteria.
Read More »Homebuyers Break Even Fastest in These Cities
Zillow's Breakeven Horizon for the first quarter of 2016 was about one year and eight months, approximately three months shorter than it was at the end of 2015. See which cities homebuyers can break even on a home purchase fastest.
Read More »America’s Views on Owning a Home
As for the growing sentiment in the mortgage industry that millennials are not interested in homeownership, the survey results seem to indicate the contrary.
Read More »Hispanic Homeownership and Wealth in Perspective
As it turns out, last year’s encouraging trend among Hispanic homeowners belies a widening gap in wealth between Hispanics and whites, according to a new report by Hispanic Wealth Project that looks at the past few years.
Read More »Western Region Goes Against Homeowner, Appraiser Trend
Western homeowners went against the nationwide trend of homeowners overvaluing their homes. Instead, their estimates came in much lower than appraised values
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