“Annual home price growth regained momentum in July, which mostly reflects strong appreciation from earlier this year,” said Selma Hepp, Chief Economist for CoreLogic.
Read More »Five Star Institute Honors Leaders on the Rise
At the upcoming Five Star Conference & Expo, the industry’s next generation of women leaders will be recognized as part of the Women in Housing Leadership Awards Luncheon. Check out our profiles of this year’s Rising Star Executive Award finalists.
Read More »Mortgage Credit Availability Rebounds
The MBA's Mortgage Credit Availability Index revealed that August's share of mortgage credit availability was on the upswing after a decrease in July, which resulted in the lowest level of credit availability recorded since 2013.
Read More »Mortgage Activity Falls as Rates Rise to Two-Decade Highs
"August was another rough month for mortgage borrowers from an interest rate perspective," said Andy Walden, VP of Enterprise Research and Strategy at Black Knight, now a part of ICE.
Read More »Renting vs. Buying: Examining the Cost of Homeownership
Potential first-time homebuyers looking to shift from renting to homeownership in 2023 are facing mortgage rates that are nearly 4 percentage points higher than the low point in Q4 2020, limiting their purchasing power. In a new analysis, First American Economist Ksenia Potapov revealed the costs of renting against the costs of owning a home.
Read More »Digitalization and the Need for a National Zoning Atlas
Efforts to use this digitized data for urban development must also keep in mind how this sort of data has been used historically. A new post from David Luberoff, Deputy Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, dives into the concept.
Read More »Florida Markets Remained Fairly Competitive During Peak Rental Season
Rental market competition was moderate this summer compared to last year, according to a new RentCafe study, with Miami named the most competitive rental market during peak moving season, while two other Florida markets also topped the top 10 list.
Read More »Generation Z Feeling Crunch of Affordability Concerns
“The worsening housing affordability crisis has an outsized impact on Gen Zers and millennials because they’re much less likely to own a home than older generations,” said Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather.
Read More »Housing Premiums, Home Prices Tick Up From July
Housing premiums have risen in seven of the top 10 hottest housing markets in the country amid concerns that the real estate market is taking off again after years of record price growth, according to July data from the Florida Atlantic University's Top 100 U.S. Housing Markets report.
Read More »Homeowners Nationwide Experience Decline in Equity
Since Q2 of 2022, homeowners with mortgages have seen their total equity decline by a total of $287.6 billion, representing a loss of 1.7% year-over-year, according to a new CoreLogic analysis.
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