According to Ginnie Mae, December's new MBS issuance will support the financing of more than 107,000 households, including more than 49,000 first-time homebuyers.
Read More »Black and Latino Homeownership Rates Rise in Nearly Half of U.S.
While Black and Latino households have often been disproportionately affected by predatory lending practices, homeownership rates have increased nationwide for both. However, lack of affordable housing and high interest rates may pose challenges moving forward.
Read More »New Bill Encourages Homeownership Counseling
Here’s how recent legislation passed by the House could help low-income homebuyers lower their cost of getting an FHA loan.
Read More »New York Fed: Snapshot of Consumer Housing Expectations
A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York takes a look at household sentiment when it comes to the economy, getting a mortgage, and whether housing is a safe investment bet.
Read More »The Student Debt Drag on Home Buying
As young adults face ever-higher rates of student debt, the housing and lending industry is feeling the slowdown.
Read More »A New Angle to Tackle Affordable Housing
Fannie Mae gives insights into why it is important for the industry to relook at affordable housing with the changing definition of households.
Read More »Wells Fargo Gives Homebuyers a LIFT
Here’s how Wells Fargo’s LIFT initiative for low- and moderate-income households has created opportunities for potential homeowners who would have otherwise remained out of the market.
Read More »A Snag Called Housing Affordability
Here’s what a survey revealed about why many American households believe that the nation is undergoing a housing affordability crisis.
Read More »2019 Trends in Real Estate Investments
Click through to learn what the latest report from Wells Fargo had to say about the performance of property investment.
Read More »To Rent or Not to Rent, That Is the Question
Despite a fall in national rental rates since 2011, a recent report found that rent affordability remains out of reach for many lower- and middle-income renter households. Here’s why.
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