Study: Buying Is Still Better Than Renting in Most States
Affordability challenges are weighing on the housing market, as many homebuyers and sellers contend with either being unable to compete...
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Home Prices Linger at All-Time High
Home prices lingered at the all-time high in the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, up 5.6 percent year-over-year in May,...
Existing-Home Sales Backtrack in June
Existing-homes sales backtracked in June, posting higher than one year prior but lower than in May, the National Association of...
Homes Have Never Been More Valuable Than They Are Now
The national median home value has careened to over $200,000 for the first time, with a 7.4 percent annual gain...
The Best Cities for First-Time Homebuyers
Affordability is at the forefront of the minds of first-time homebuyers, who are contending with climbing prices and fierce competition....
Mortgage Rates Retreat After Two-Week Rise
Mortgage rates are retreating after two weeks of upward momentum, according to Freddie Mac's recently released Primary Mortgage Market Survey®...
Gen X Falls Behind in Equity Gain
Homeowners have made inroads in building equity back up since the crash, with mortgages more evenly leveraged as values recover....
Housing Starts Rev Up in June
Home-building activity revved up in June, with housing starts up 8.3 percent to a rate of 1,215,000, according to the...
Foreign Home-Buying in U.S. Bounds to Over $150 Billion
Foreign home-buying in the U.S. leaped 49 percent to $153 billion in the last year, a record high in the...
Economic Outlook: Slow Going to Push Rate Hike to End of Year
Analysts anticipate a slowdown for the economy in the latter half of 2017, with housing having less bearing on growth...
What Recent Pre-Marketing Studies Say About Pricing, Policy and Privacy
How can the industry (and you) use data to steer policy and clients in a direction that best serves everyone—whether that is toward “seller choice” or “transparency,” or perhaps both? Read more.
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