There seems to be no stopping home price and value growth, according to a new report, but how many U.S. markets are currently overvalued? Read on to find out.
Read More »Fannie Checks in With Homeowners
Consumer sentiment on the housing market edged up this month according to a Fannie Mae report, but while homeowner confidence remains at an all-time high, these factors impacted buyer sentiments.
Read More »Wolters Kluwer Releases HMDA Data
The release shows lending practices in the aggregate as well as by individual institutions, allowing viewers market insights that are ahead of the federal government’s aggregate data report.
Read More »Ask the Economist: An Increasing Interest in Financial Services
Erin Collard, CFO and Co-Founder of Blend on why investors are seeing a big opportunity for technology to drive change across different areas of financial services. Editor’s note: This feature originally appeared in the April issue of DS News.
Read More »Sam Khater Joins Freddie Mac as Chief Economist
Khater will lead a team of researchers in providing insights and analysis on economic trends and policies affecting Freddie Mac and the housing market.
Read More »The Two Factors Impeding Home Affordability
What are the two factors that are making homes more unaffordable for homebuyers despite a rising demand? Click through to learn the answer.
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 »The Past and Future of PACE
By T. Robert Finlay, Founding Partner, Wright, Finlay & Zak and Sonia Edwards, Senior Associate, Wright, Finlay & Zak, California With global warming and other environmental issues at the forefront of national policy, the creation of programs to finance energy-efficient improvements ...
Read More »Top 5 Cities to Rent and to Own a Home
Manhattan, New York and Santa Barbara, California are among the most expensive places to buy a home, but the best places to rent, while Baltimore, Maryland and Clayton County, Georgia, are the best counties to buy a home according to ...
Read More »Homebuyers Seek Innovation From Mortgage Lenders
People looking at purchasing a home think mortgage products are not innovative enough and look instead for lowest rates or points, rather than who is offering the loan.
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