It's been a long time since U.S. housing prices have gone down. Still, growth is not even across regions.
Read More »The Enthusiasm Gap: Why Homeowners Aren’t Eager to Sell
The latest report from Redfin shows that home sale prices in March were still on the way up—they were 9 percent higher than a year ago, closing the month at a median $297,000 nationally. But homes for sale were down ...
Read More »For U.S. Housing, When Will Familiar Trends Shift?
The one thing steady about the U.S. housing market post-Q1 is that it continues to be defined by a dynamic that almost sounds like it's stuck on repeat: historically low inventory is driving fewer sales and rising prices in most ...
Read More »Fannie Mae Delivers Mixed Economic and Housing Forecast
Amid talk of trade wars, escalating home prices, and rising interest rates, Fannie Mae is remaining optimistic about overall economic growth. In Fannie's April 2018 Economic and Housing Outlook report, the GSE projects higher numbers across the board in housing ...
Read More »Homebuyers Growing More Diverse in the Lone Star State
Diversity and prices paid for homes in Texas are on the way up, according to the Texas Homebuyers and Sellers Report released Wednesday by the Texas Association of Realtors. The report found that the percentage of homebuyers who identified as African-American was ...
Read More »Which States Are Best for Millennials?
Determining the best states for millennials to live in is not as straightforward as it might at first seem, but signs do point toward the upper Midwest. So says a new report from WalletHub that looks at where being a ...
Read More »How Homebuying Millennials Must Adapt
By Scott Morgan According to a new survey by Realtor.com, millennial buyers are, more than older buyers, having to adjust what they're looking for in a home. The report states that crushing student debt and smaller down payments are combining to ...
Read More »10 Cities With the Best and Worst Credit Scores
A new report by WalletHub shows that when it comes to solid credit, residents of several cities in Florida and California have the edge on the rest of the country. The firm compared the median credit scores of residents in ...
Read More »Starter Homes Feel the Market Pressure
One of the major casualties of a national housing market defined by continuously rising prices and over-tight inventory is the starter home, according to the latest Inventory and Price Watch report by Trulia. Starter homes “have become scarcer, pricier, smaller, ...
Read More »America’s 10 Hardest-Working Cities
The Bay Area might be among the most expensive housing markets in the country, but the residents there indeed work for their living, according to WalletHub's Hardest-Working Cities in America report. WalletHub's 2018 numbers find that San Franciscans are the ...
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