Buying While Building a Family: Which States Have Affordability, Inventory and Good Schools?
Homebuyers starting families have always come into the market with a checklist of needs and wants for their future home—number ...
Tag: Housing Affordability
Report: Housing Affordability Takes Downturn in Q2 Due to Market Headwinds
Higher mortgage rates, rising construction costs and economic uncertainty pressured housing affordability to reverse course in Q2, after showing improvement ...
Mortgage Applications Decrease as Affordability Challenges Continue
While mortgage rates and applications changed little last week, home-purchase applications retreated and were lower than last year’s pace, signaling ...
‘Price-Sensitive’ Buyers Fade From Market: Report
The term is being thrown around in the media a lot these days: “K-shaped economy,” which refers to an economy ...
New Construction Craters in July
Economic uncertainty continues to push builders to temper their expectations (and pace of construction) based on the latest monthly new ...
Mortgage Rates Remain Steady; Buyers Moving on Modest Decreases
Mortgage rates remained relatively steady from last week, but an increase in home-purchase application activity after multiple weeks of decreases ...
Slight Rate Drop Drives Mortgage Application Activity Upward After Weeks of Declines
While mortgage rates remain elevated, a slight retreat this past week drove home-purchase application activity up for the first time ...
Lawmakers and Consumers Have Questions About Private Listings. Does the Industry Have Answers?
The private listing debate quickly got messy within the industry. Real estate rivals suddenly couldn't agree even on the definition ...
Realtors Bundle Up for Existing-Home Sales Cold Season
Monthly home sales slowed their descent but continued a downward trajectory, as reported by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) ...
Mortgage Rates Rise to Higher Than Year-Ago Levels for the First Time in 44 Weeks
Mortgage rates continued their upward march, coming in above year-ago levels for the first time in 44 weeks, but economists ...
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