It has been five decades since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law, one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In honor of the anniversary, Trulia partnered with the National Fair Housing Alliance ...
Read More »The Real-World Impact of Home Prices
Mounting housing costs are taking their toll on quality of life in Los Angeles, causing more than half of residents to worry they may have to move, according to a new study from the University of California Los Angeles. About ...
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 »Putting Abandoned Properties Under the Spotlight
Ever since the Washington Supreme Court’s decision in the Jordan v. NationStar case, loan servicers have been on edge about securing abandoned property. House Bill 2057 seeks to address this, and several other pressing issues. Most of the bill's sections ...
Read More »A New Tactic to Fight Zombie Homes
This June, Washington state will implement a new law (HB2057) designed to combat abandoned zombie properties and streamline interactions between government and lenders when it comes to preventing urban blight as the properties fall into disrepair. As reported by the ...
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 »The Single-Family Rental Surge
With skyrocketing home prices, insufficient housing inventory, and crippling student debt, many potential homebuyers simply don’t have the means to save up for a downpayment on a home. For many, that leaves rental as the only option, and a pair ...
Read More »House Bill Would Streamline Volcker Rule
The push to streamline reforms put in place after the financial crisis continues as the House of Representatives has passed a new bill that would streamline the Volcker Rule. Implemented as part of the larger Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and ...
Read More »The Best Cities for America’s Top Expanding Professions
Securing employment is one of the precursors to homeownership, and the good news is that several growing industries are brimming with opportunity. However, in some cases, the markets teeming with employment opportunities harbor competitive and high-priced housing markets. “A red-hot ...
Read More »Multigenerational Households on the Rise
As of 2016, one in five Americans lived in a multigenerational household. That’s the key revelation from a newly released Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census data, revealing that the percentage of multigenerational American households has reached a level ...
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