First American Financial Corporation is reporting that tenure length has increased year-over-year by 11% in July and has caused the loss of nearly 450,000 potential home sales—a monthly ...
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that the size of single-family homes during Q2 2019 declined. The NAHB, with data from the Census Bureau’s Quarterly Starts ...
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Metros in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania are among the most affordable. How much do you need to make, though, to live on the West Coast?
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A survey by the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) revealed that most of the surveyed economists believe a recession will begin by 2020 or 2021. “Survey respondents ...
Read More »Gauging the Home Price Slowdown Risks
In this Video Spotlight, find out why CoreLogic Deputy Chief Economist Ralph McLaughlin says housing market observers should ease some of their concerns.
Read More »The Key to High-Performance Mortgage Lending
Here’s what a new survey, analyzing mortgage lending, revealed about the market and the recommendations it made for the way ahead for lenders.
Read More »Housing Market in California Far From Golden
The Orange County Register reports that although home prices in California may be stabilizing, the Golden State faces a “severe housing crisis.” According to the report, just 30% ...
Read More »Amazon’s Impact on Virginia’s Housing Market
Amazon’s HQ2 has caused a housing boom in Virginia, as the two closest cities to the Crystal City-headquarters—Alexandria and Arlington—are the two most competitive markets in the nation, ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Studying Existing-Home Sales Across the Nation
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) will look to see if existing-home sales rebounded from a 1.7% drop in June, as the NAR will release its latest existing-home ...
Read More »HUD Proposes Amendments to Disparate Impact Rule
The Department of Housing and Urban Development aims to align the current Disparate Impact Rule with a Supreme Court ruling and also address the role of technology through the amendment.
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