Housing affordability remains historically low: NAHB

Housing affordability remains historically low: NAHB

Mortgages rates reached their highest level since 2000, construction costs rose and building regulations remained burdensome, leaving U.S. housing affordability near a 10-year low point at the end of last year, according... Read more »
Utah, Idaho Among Top 10 States With Most ‘severe’ Housing Crisis

Utah, Idaho Among Top 10 States With Most ‘severe’ Housing Crisis

Housing Market Shortage Sharpens in Suburbs, Small Towns, Report Says. A Washington D.C. nonprofit, Up for Growth, devoted to solving the nation’s housing shortage, issued a new report Thursday that found the... Read more »
Housing credit data in Q4 looks nothing like 2008

Housing credit data in Q4 looks nothing like 2008

People have been screaming about a housing bubble crash on social media sites for over 12 years. The truth is, U.S. housing credit looks very different than in 2005, 2006, 2007 or... Read more »
Why Housing Prices Are So High in Today’s Market?

Why Housing Prices Are So High in Today’s Market?

If you are looking for a home in the US, you may have noticed that the prices are skyrocketing. The nationwide median sale price of existing-home (for all housing types ) is... Read more »
Housing affordability remains historically low: NAHB

Housing coalition publishes recommendations for GSEs’ ‘Duty to Serve’ plans

The Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition (UMMC), a coalition of 32 housing groups initially convened by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, published a report on Wednesday that recommended actions for the government-sponsored... Read more »
A lesson on California housing from the billionaires planning a new city

A lesson on California housing from the billionaires planning a new city

A cadre of Silicon Valley elites is drawing fierce criticism from local residents and environmentalists for planning a new city on the outskirts of the Bay Area, a project dubbed “California Forever.”... Read more »
Weekly mortgage demand from homebuyers is flattening as interest rates rise

Weekly mortgage demand from homebuyers is flattening as interest rates rise

Thianchai Sitthikongsak | Moment | Getty Images Mortgage demand is struggling to contend with what appears to be another upswing in interest rates. Homebuyers in particular are pulling back. Total mortgage application... Read more »
70 Public Housing Employees Charged With Bribery In New York

70 Public Housing Employees Charged With Bribery In New York

The charges amount to the largest number of federal bribery charges ever filed on a single day, according to the Department of Justice. Mark your calendars for the ultimate real estate experiences... Read more »
Weekly mortgage demand from homebuyers is flattening as interest rates rise

Mortgage rates back over 7%, as stronger economic data rolls in

This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the... Read more »
RealPage antitrust lawsuits allege collusion among corporate landlords

RealPage antitrust lawsuits allege collusion among corporate landlords

A group of renters in the U.S. say their landlords are using software to deliver inflated rent hikes. “We’ve been told as tenants by employees of Equity that the software takes empathy... Read more »