Market Studies

Higher raw material costs, along with continuing shortages, contributed to homeowners underestimating the costs to complete a DIY project.

The doozy of a year that the real estate market experienced in 2021 did not just include homeowners, but renters as well with Redfin finding that the average rent kept up rising real estate prices and increased 21% nationally last ...

A new study from HomeAdvisor examined the nation's cities where investing in home improvements garnered the greatest ROI vs. the weakest.

For the third consecutive month, single‐family houses rose, as buyers cash in on low rates before a predicted hike in the coming months.

Home buyers continued to snap up the limited supply of available homes, exerting upward pressure on sales prices and overall home-price growth.

A new report finds that an atypical third quarter may propel the market into a strong start to 2022.

Fannie Mae’s ESR Group found that, despite the nation’s solid economic finish to 2021, inventory and inflation will dampen the housing forecast in 2022.

Buying a home is typically the largest purchase one makes in their lifetime and with that comes a lot of research. When beginning house shopping, most people tend to start at the same place they go to get all of their questions answered: the internet.   Instead of pulling ...

Mortgage lenders are predicting the market will return to some semblance of normal in 2022, at least that’s according to Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey, which is a quarterly poll of senior lending executives to assess their views and outlook across the mortgage market.  Among ...

Moving South may save you more money than you think, as states like Arkansas, Missouri and West Virginia remain affordable throughout the pandemic.