By allocating $1.09 billion into the affordable housing sector, the FHFA more than doubled it 2019 amounts to HUD’s Housing Trust Fund and the Treasury’s Capital Magnet Fund.
Read More »Where Property Taxes Are Lowest
Researchers found the residents of Hawaii pay the least for their property taxes, while across the map, the Garden State of New Jersey comes in at a rate nearly nine times as much.
Read More »Roughly 2.1 Million Homeowners Remain 90+ Days Overdue
Black Knight finds that while the housing market has been in a slow recovery, the national foreclosure rate remains nearly five times greater than pre-pandemic levels.
Read More »Loans in Forbearance Drop for Third Consecutive Week
With 2.6 million U.S. homeowners now in forbearance plans, a new report shows a continued slide as new forbearances drop to a survey low.
Read More »Despite Pandemic, the Need for Smaller Homes Remains
A study released by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies has found that while the pandemic has yielded the need for bigger and more spacious homes, the demand for smaller and more modestly-priced homes remains relatively high.
Read More »Active Forbearance Numbers Trending Upward
The number of active forbearance plans is on the rise, as a critical deadline looms where nearly 600,000 seriously delinquent borrowers near the end of their forbearance terms.
Read More »Opportunity Zones: Housing Performance Scorecard
A new report examines home price performance in Opportunity Zones as compared to that of other regions. Here's why the report suggests that "many distressed communities are ripe for the redevelopment that the Opportunity Zone tax breaks are designed to promote."
Read More »A Look at ‘Economically Integrated’ Neighborhoods
A new Redfin study analyzed the mix of affordable and high-end homes in neighborhoods across 30 of the largest American cities to determine which are the most economically-integrated.
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