Is the foreclosure crisis finally over? While many numbers point to a decline in delinquencies, the market might need to brace for a slight increase by early 2020 according to a report on the state of the U.S. housing market.
Read More »Combating Housing Shortages With Backyard Homes
Proposals to help address California’s housing crisis—such as allowing more housing closer to busy transit hubs—are sometimes met with refrains of “not in my backyard!” However, Los Angeles aims to combat the housing shortages by looking exactly there—in residents’ backyards. ...
Read More »Major Metros Still Exhibiting Pockets of Affordability
With home prices rising in most major metros across the United States for the past decades—in some cases posting double-digit gains year-over-year—the American Dream of homeownership may begin to feel elusive. However, Unison, a homeownership investment firm, maintains there are ...
Read More »How Homebuying Millennials Must Adapt
By Scott Morgan According to a new survey by Realtor.com, millennial buyers are, more than older buyers, having to adjust what they're looking for in a home. The report states that crushing student debt and smaller down payments are combining to ...
Read More »For Waterfront Properties, Is Location Everything?
The old real estate adage insists that location is everything, but how much truth does that hold when it comes to waterfront properties? A new study by Collateral Analytics puts waterfront real estate under the microscope to determine what factors ...
Read More »Looking for Growing Residential Markets? Try the Northwest
The real estate market will continue strengthening over the next 12 months, especially in the Pacific Northwest. That's according to the latest quarterly report by Veros Real Estate Solutions. The study looks at more than 13, 000 ZIP codes across almost ...
Read More »The Four U.S. Cities Where Paychecks are Stretching Furthest
Those looking to get the biggest bang for their bucks would be most likely to find it west of the Mississippi, according to a new joint report by Trulia and Indeed. The firms looked at which American cities stretch paychecks the ...
Read More »Ripple Effect
Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the March issue of DSNews, out now. When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect, many in the industry began to speculate what impact this would have on home prices, ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Measuring Home Affordability
On Monday, March 26, First American will release its monthly Real House Price Index (RHPI) for January. The RHPI measures the price changes for single-family homes across the U.S. after adjusting for the impact of income and interest rate changes ...
Read More »Starter Homes Feel the Market Pressure
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, ...
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