Pending home sales inched up 0.5 percent during the year according to the Pending Home Sales Index released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Wednesday. The ...
Read More »Appeals Court CFPB Reversal Charts Course for Supreme Court
In a split decision, a Washington appeals court has reversed a previous ruling, declaring the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be constitutional after all. The Court of Appeals for the ...
Read More »Fair Weather or Headwinds for the State of Housing?
On Tuesday evening, President Trump delivered his State of the Union address before the Congress. The White House released excerpts from the speech before it began, highlighting a ...
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 »Study Says: Inventory Decline Resulted in Fewer Offers
Fewer listings and therefore fewer offers marked the end of 2017 for the housing market according to data on housing demand from online real estate brokers, Redfin that ...
Read More »Fannie Mae Executive to Advance Diversity and Inclusion Council
The American Mortgage Diversity Council (AMDC) has taken another step to promote inclusion with the recent addition of Charmaine Brown, Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Fannie Mae, to its council as Vice Chair. Partnering with Chair Kathy Cummings of Bank of America, Brown joins the council in their mission to create a diverse and inclusive mortgage industry for all.
Read More »It’s Not Only Demand That’s Raising Home Prices
Home prices continued to rise three times faster than the rate of inflation, showing year over year increase in prices of 5 percent or more for 16 straight ...
Read More »The State of Housing
As President Trump will present his State of the Union address to the Senate this evening, what is the State of the Housing Industry? With home prices that ...
Read More »2017 Showed Growth for Single Family Housing Construction
New construction starts in December climbed 12 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $733.3 billion, bouncing back from November’s 12 percent decline, according to a report ...
Read More »Top 10 Hottest Neighborhoods of 2018
San Jose, California has emerged as the hottest city to live in, with nine of the top 10 hottest neighborhoods in the U.S. located in this tech hub, ...
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