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Don Layton, former CEO of Freddie Mac and current Senior Industry Pellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, lays out four benchmarks against which to grade the GSEs as their plans are implemented.

While competition in the Northeast intensifies, according to new data from RentCafe, Miami-Dade County stands as the nation’s most competitive apartment market in 2022.

While the housing market remains unbalanced nationwide, with demand far outpacing supply, contract signings are down significantly from a year ago due to inflated mortgage rates.

Sales of new single‐family homes in May rose to 696,000, a 10.7% month-over-month rise of April’s recorded total of 629,000.

Homebuying demand pulled back further as mortgage rates reached their highest level in over 13 years, according to a new report from Redfin. “Mortgage rates near 6% have ...

The Urban Institute will partner with the National Housing Conference to present an in-person conference in D.C. exploring the racial homeownership gap, including the lack of affordable housing, and fair access to quality credit.

TransUnion's latest migration patterns show more people leaving the Rust Belt and Northeast in favor of warmer, Southern Atlantic and Mountain states, like Arizona and Texas.

“The ongoing affordability hit of higher home prices and fast-rising mortgage rates led to a slowdown in purchase applications in May,” said Edward Seiler, the MBA's Associate VP.

The record-breaking year that was 2021 seems to be a one-off performance, as the 2022 market is experiencing the upward creep of mortgage rates compounded with record-high prices, which is only adding to affordability issues.

After a few weeks of decline, Freddie Mac reports mortgage rates hit a mark last seen in November 2008, having increased by more than two full percentage points since the beginning of 2022.