Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman recently appeared on CNBC to discuss the state of housing industry and the overall trends he is seeing in the early days of 2018. Kelman highlights the continued lack of affordable housing, the early and surprising impacts ...
Read More »Gap Between Potential and Actual Home Sales Narrows
According to a new report by First American, while existing-home sales continued to underperform their potential in December 2017, the gap between actual sales and that potential has continued to narrow. First American’s proprietary Potential Home Sales model reports that ...
Read More »The Top 25 Women of Law, Part 4
Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the January issue of DS News, out now. In the January issue of DS News, we were proud to introduce our section on 25 women lawyers who have made their marks in the legal industry. ...
Read More »Home Prices to Continue Climbing
If current analyses are any indication, home prices in the land of Uncle Sam aren’t heading south anytime soon, this according to the Winter 2018 edition of The Housing and Mortgage Market Review (HaMMR), released by Arch Mortgage Insurance Company ...
Read More »The Long-Term Impact of Hazard Mitigation
Benjamin Franklin once said that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” As regions such as Texas, Florida, California, and Puerto Rico struggle to recover from damaging natural disasters, the implications of those words for the mortgage, ...
Read More »JPMorgan Raising Wages After Passage of Tax Reform
While the long-term impacts of the tax reform bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump remain to be seen, at least one major corporation is investing some of their tax windfall into continuing growth. According to ...
Read More »Hurricane Aftermath Continues to Affect Mortgage Delinquency
The state of mortgage delinquencies was a mixture of good news and bad news as 2017 wrapped up, according to a new report by Black Knight, Inc., a provider of integrated technology, data, and analytics for lenders and servicers. Today ...
Read More »Amazon’s HQ2: What it Means for Housing
With the recent release of Amazon’s candidates of cities for its second headquarters location, a new study predicts which housing markets would experience the greatest impact.
Read More »The Top 25 Women of Law, Part 3
Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the January issue of DS News, out now. In the January issue of DS News, we were proud to introduce our section on 25 women lawyers who have made their marks in the legal ...
Read More »Growth in Home Prices Might Slow Down in 2018
Despite an overvalued market in the Western region, home prices in the U.S. remain affordable, even as rising home prices are expected to see a slowdown during the year, according to a report.
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