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 »Why Aren’t More Renters Becoming Buyers?
With rent medians increasing at a record rate, a new report shows why homeownership isn’t being sought after as a solution.
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 ...
Read More »Hidden Figures: 5 Factors That Influence Home Values
Very often it’s easy to see why one house comes to market bearing a bigger-than-average price tag, but in other instances, it’s not so obvious. In those cases, it’s likely that a handful of more obscure and hard-to-measure price influencers ...
Read More »Housing and Technology Converge for Five Star Fintech Summit
With the 2018 Five Star Single-Family Rental Summit wrapping up on Wednesday afternoon, the next big Five Star event followed close on its heels—the inaugural Five Star Fintech Summit. Convening inside the Renaissance Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, the first ...
Read More »Rising Rates to Impact Homebuyers
On Wednesday, after Jerome Powell's first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as Fed Chair, the Federal Reserve announced that it had increased the Fed funds rate by a quarter point at a target of 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent. ...
Read More »Single-Family Rental Summit Dives Deep Into Investment Opportunities
This week an array of housing and mortgage professionals are assembling at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, as the 2018 Five Star Single-Family Rental Summit kicks off. The three-day event began Monday evening with an opening night reception ...
Read More »HLP and Finance of America Foundation Partner on Homeowner Assistance
The Finance of America Foundation and HLP have announced they will create a new national platform to connect homeowners facing foreclosure or other financial problems with the assistance they need to keep their homes. This national utility will be free ...
Read More »SunTrust: Businesses Optimistic for the Future
An annual survey is taking the “pulse” of business optimism to determine where today’s leaders are seeing economic growth, as well as potential pitfalls for domestic and global operations.
Read More »Black Knight Announces Common Stock Offering
Black Knight, Inc., a Jacksonville, Florida-based provider of software, data, and analytics solutions to the mortgage and consumer loan, real estate, and capital market verticals, announced that affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P., intend to offer for sale 4,000,000 ...
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