Among Americans who don’t currently own a home, 51% say they’re worried they will never attain homeownership, according to a new survey from LendingTree. Mortgage rates topped 7% last month and home prices hit new highs in June.
Read More »How Homebuyers Can Save by Negotiating a Lower APR, Home Prices
According to a new survey from LendingTree, some 63% of homebuyers have negotiated their purchase price in hopes of saving money, while just 39% negotiated the mortgage or refinance rate despite the likelihood of a better deal.
Read More »Baby Boomers Surpass Millennials as Largest Share of Current Homebuyers
It’s the first time since 2014 that boomers have overtaken the younger generation when it comes to owning a bigger slice of the homebuyer market, according to a new housing report from the Bank of America Institute.
Read More »Home Sellers Hesitant to Take on New Mortgages
A new survey from Realtor.com revealed an estimated 82% of home sellers feel 'locked in’ to their current home, as buying a new home could potentially mean buying into a higher mortgage rate.
Read More »Female-Headed Households Still Struggle to Achieve Homeownership
According to a new study from Urban Institute, research revealed that among never-married households, there was a steady six-percentage-point female-male homeownership gap between 1990 and 2021.
Read More »The Typical Home Is Bought & Sold Every 12 Years
“Even though the length of time Americans are staying in their homes has ticked down from the peak it reached in 2020, it’s likely to head back up again in the next few years,” said Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari.
Read More »Top SFR Trends of the Past Decade
Visio Lending CEO Jeff Ball reflects on some of the top innovations the single-family rental marketplace has experienced in recent years, as well as what lies beyond.
Read More »As Boomers Age Out, How Will Housing Inventory Be Impacted?
With the oldest generation gradually aging out of their homes, will the inventory freed up provide relief for younger generations searching for their own path to homeownership?
Read More »Migration is Key Trend Affecting Insurance Carriers
The Great Recession, now 15 years behind us, and its impacts on homeownership and insurance markets are still being felt today. This is according to a new report from the credit bureau TransUnion, who also found that migration patterns are ...
Read More »Many Gen Zers, Millennials to Sell in Next Year
Buying a home and sticking to it is becoming a way of the past as more and more members of the Millennial generation and Generation Z who currently live in a home are planning to move in the next 12 ...
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