Market Studies

While listings are beginning to trickle back to the market, it is going to take a long time to fill the current inventory deficit.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has launched a new affordability index aiming to measure how new mortgage payments vary across time relative to their income.  The new monthly ...

Zillow found that over the course of 2021, the gains most homeowners realized amounted to much more than the median income for the associated areas.

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Builder Application Survey (BAS), data for February 2022 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases decreased by 1%, but on a year-over-year basis applications are ...

A slowing economy, decades-high inflation, expired fiscal stimulus, tightening monetary policy, and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine are all weighing on the health of the U.S. economy.

Continuing a pattern of recent rises and declines over the last few months, existing home sales dropped in February 2022 according to the Existing Home Sales Report from ...

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have released their new residential construction statistics for February 2022, which found that privately‐owned housing starts ...

While each homeowner’s total cost is different, of course, examining broad categories of homeowners and analyzing their costs, can provide insights into the drivers of housing affordability. Here’s what a new study by Fannie Mae reveals.

Renters are at particular risk of natural disasters, especially those in manufactured homes, and may have few options to turn to after a significant event.

Continuing a quarterly survey of mortgage executives that initially started in 2014, Fannie Mae has published its latest Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey for the first quarter of 2022 ...