In modern-day America, even a top job’s paychecks do not always open the door to acquiring homeownership. However, regional differences still make it possible for workers in a wide range of professions to buy a home in locations where their ...
Read More »HUD Unveils $40M Funding to Protect Families From Safety Hazards
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the availability of $40 million through the Healthy Homes Production Grant Program to help transform communities by fixing older housing, preserving affordable housing, and improving communities and the health ...
Read More »HUD Releases FMRs for Fiscal Year 2023
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has today published Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for Fiscal Year 2023. FMRs, published annually, are an estimate of the amount of money that would cover gross rents (rent and utility expenses) ...
Read More »Americans Migrating Away from Metros
As national population growth sits at a record low, domestic migration was the key component of population change on state and local levels in 2021, according to demographic findings of Harvard University's State of the Nation’s Housing report released in ...
Read More »Examining Gender Disparities in Homeownership
Throughout history, —and still today— women nationwide have experienced a great deal of obstacles and discrimination solely based on their gender. From fighting for equal rights to advocating for wage fairness, some women often find themselves working harder than men ...
Read More »Study Finds Inflation More Severe for Younger Renters
Millennials who took on a new rental lease in July saw their overall cost of goods and services increase 11.6% year over year, substantially higher than 8.5% for the U.S. population as a whole. The personal inflation rate for Gen ...
Read More »Which States Can Homeowners Find Smallest, Largest HELOC’s?
LendingTree reports that Colorado, Hawaii, and Connecticut homeowners are now being offered the largest average home equity loans, despite being a part of the many states with the highest recorded home prices.
Read More »Examining Gender Disparities in Homeownership
Although women have come a long way in terms of equality, they still have a way to go, according to a new ConsumerAffairs analysis which details exactly how many years of saving it would take for the average woman to afford a home compared to males.
Read More »Market Trends: More Sellers Become Hesitant to List Homes
Realtor.com’s latest housing data release for August reveals that listing prices decelerated for the third month in a row, as more sellers hit pause on listing homes and homes for sale spent more time on the market than last August. ...
Read More »Freddie Mac CRT Produces Record First Half of Year
Freddie Mac’s Single-Family business announced that its Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) program reported Q2 2022 CRT issuance of approximately $6.5 billion, protecting approximately $151 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) of single-family mortgages. The final total was a record for a second ...
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