According to a recent poll, more Americans believe real estate is a safer investment than stocks. Find out what is making homeownership the popular option.
Read More »To Rent or Not to Rent, That Is the Question
Despite a fall in national rental rates since 2011, a recent report found that rent affordability remains out of reach for many lower- and middle-income renter households. Here’s why.
Read More »What Ended the Decade-Long Rental Surge
Following nearly a decade of increased focus on rentals following the housing boom, the pendulum is starting to swing the other way, according to a recent report. Find out what pushed the rental surge back down and home purchases back up following the housing crisis,
Read More »Challenges and Opportunities in Single-Family Rentals
The Single Family Rental Roundtable at the Five Star Conference was an opportunity for investors, mortgage servicers, real estate organizations, and property preservation companies to address the present hurdles and future possibilities in SFR. Here’s what they discussed.
Read More »How Property Investors Can Better Identify Fraud
With increasing usage of the internet, fraud has become more complicated and harder to track for home investors. See how investment into new technologies can change this.
Read More »The State of Single-family Rentals
How will a slowing housing market affect the single-family rental space? With Fannie and Freddie ending their SFR pilot programs, DS News asked experts for their opinion on the state of the SFR industry and here’s what they said.
Read More »Where is Single-family Rental Growing the Most?
The latest data on single-family rentals reveals a discrepancy in rental price growth among properties at different ends of the price spectrum. Click through to learn which type of properties are spurring growth in rental prices.
Read More »Homeownership Gets a Boost from Young Americans
The homeownership rate ticked up slightly from last year, prompted by a jump in millennial owners, according to a Census Bureau survey. Here are some of the factors that are driving more buyers from this generation to purchase a house.
Read More »HUD Approves U.S. Virgin Islands Disaster Recovery Plan
As the first anniversary of the 2017 Hurricanes approaches, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a multimillion-dollar plan to aid the recovery efforts in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Read More »Non-Owner-Occupied Homes: Where Are They Most Common?
A recent study of non-owner-occupied mortgage originations discovered that certain cities are a hotbed for vacation, investment, and second homes. Cities in the South and West are leading the pack.
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