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Vacasa has ranked the top spots nationwide to purchase a winter vacation home and investment property, analyzing which mountain markets delivered the strongest homeowner returns.

Nine out of 10 servicemembers surveyed intend to use a VA loan to finance housing after transitioning to civilian life.

Looking ahead, Ventera’s SVP of Financial Solutions publishes new white paper on the forecast for housing defaults.

As inflation begins to slow, the latest Redfin analysis showed the median home sale price rose just 3% year-over-year, the slowest sale-price growth since the beginning of the pandemic.

While the state of the market has made purchasing a home more difficult, military servicemembers—both past and present—face additional challenges such as frequent relocations due to changing orders.

An upcoming Senate Banking Committee hearing will examine the state of Main Street, featuring testimony from top-ranking members of the FDIC, OCC, NCUA, and Federal Reserve.

“For the second quarter in a row, the mortgage delinquency rate fell to its lowest level since MBA’s survey began in 1979,” said Marina Walsh, MBA’s VP of Industry Analysis.

People gifted with remote work overwhelmingly chose to migrate to the Sun Belt, resulting in higher housing costs, which weigh on inflation figures.

First-time homebuyers looking to purchase a typical home during Q3 have begun to feel the impact of nationwide housing's growing unaffordability. A new report from the National Association of Realtors revealed single-family existing-home sales prices grew in nearly every metro analyzed, as the national median home price climbed nearly 9% from 2021.

“The steepest increase in mortgage rates in decades is a headwind for homebuyers, but Ginnie Mae’s guaranty and insuring agency partners are here with products and programs to help consumers achieve their dream of homeownership,” said Ginnie Mae President Alanna McCargo.