The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on Wednesday new regulations and policies for the condominium approval process, aimed to help affordability for first-time buyers. New rules and the new “Condominium...

...Q4 2017. Additionally, 59% of prospective buyers in the poll showed they have never owned a home before, which is down from last year’s 63%. Despite affordability issues across the...

...toward offering smaller, more affordable homes,” said Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather. “While this change was a clear and long-needed response to homebuyer demand and tastes amid an affordability crisis...

Increased construction needed to ease the ongoing affordability and housing supply crisis in California is not happening any time soon. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times (LA...

...will lead housing affordability grant making, collaborative efforts with nonprofits intended to create positive impact, and initiatives intended to strengthen the national housing affordability movement. Fitzgerald is a graduate of...

...reasons for the rise of these built-for-rent homes was diminishing affordability. The post, written by BSB Design, said that transitioning from a multifamily property to a single-family home was a...

...of 5% of better. “Housing unaffordability will hinder sales irrespective of the local job market conditions,” Yun said. “This is evident in the very expensive markets as home prices are...

...16% and 24%, respectively. “Consumer job confidence and favorable mortgage rate expectations lifted the HPSI to a new survey high in July, despite ongoing housing supply and affordability challenges,” said...

...growth has caused affordability to reach an 18-month high. “For much of the past year and a half, affordability pressures have put a damper on home price appreciation,” said Black...

...lower end of the housing market, accelerating prices here beyond the added tariff expense, and worsening the affordability and availability problems in this part of the market,” Kapfidze said. A...