...American, in a blog looking at the concept of housing affordability through the eyes of renters. According to Fleming, “a renter’s house-buying power is based on the median renter’s income,...
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Home Prices and First-Time Buyers
Home prices continued their upward trajectory in June, taking a toll on affordability and leading to slower sales in some markets, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI),...
Read More »How Policy Can Help Housing Affordability
...problems in the U.S. housing markets and policies.” She made her own recommendations on how federal, state, and local governments can “improve the affordability, availability, and equity of housing outcomes...
Read More »Home Price Growth Slowing
...to May 2018. It also gauged the impact of this slowdown and the slightly lower interest rates on home affordability. The Black Knight report indicated that every state saw prices...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Checking in on Home Affordability
...the monthly cost for that unit. For the first quarter, NAHB said that rising income gave a boost to housing affordability. In all, 61.6 percent of new and existing homes...
Read More »Better to Buy or to Rent?
...cost burden is the fact that incomes have not increased at the same pace as housing prices, creating an affordability problem nationwide,” said Nadia Balint, Senior Marketing Writer at RENTCafé....
Read More »The Numbers Making the Market
...Despite this, hopeful homebuyers still felt a modicum of relief, with annual growth flattening and remaining unchanged since April of this year. Concerns over affordability and low inventory remained a...
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...at NAR. "As a result, affordability constraints are pricing out some would-be buyers and keeping overall sales activity below last year's pace." Yun said that the worst of the supply...
Read More »Affordability vs. Buying Power
...answer, according to the May data of the First American Real House Price Index report, is a little more nuanced. According to the report, while affordability was down in May,...
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Editor's Note: This feature originally appeared in the July issue of MReport. When it comes to title insurance, efficiency and affordability set the best providers apart. While title insurance rates...
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