...have the lowest average interest rate at 4.25%. A report by Financial Planning found Hawaii County, Hawaii, to be most at risk to face a bubble. Hawaii County has a...
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Latino Homeownership Growing, but Gap Persists
...In comparison, 81.2% of homes are in white communities and they account for 66.4% of foreclosures during that same time. During the height of the housing bubble in 2007, a...
Read More »Las Vegas Housing Prices Drawing Winning Hand
...19.3% annually. The Review-Journal stated Las Vegas was “ground zero” for the real estate bubble in the mid-2000s, mostly due to growing property values, rising construction, and home flipping. According...
Read More »GSE Reform Plan Released by Treasury
...begin moving forward on key administrative reforms outlined in the Treasury Department and HUD reports. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac contributed to the housing bubble and subsequent crash and are...
Read More »Which Housing Markets Face a Possible Bubble in 2019?
A new report by Financial Planning studies the housing markets at danger for a bubble during the summer. The report, which studied markets with a minimum population of 100,000, at...
Read More »Technology’s Impact on Homebuying and Investment
...another devastating bubble,” said Karl Smith, former assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina's school of government stated on Bloomberg. “iBuying,” Smith notes, involves firms using algorithms...
Read More »Where’s the Housing Bubble?
...Institute, means that we are at less risk of entering a housing bubble. Urban Institute’s analysis of Black Knight’s house price index (HPI) reveals that home prices appear to be...
Read More »The Makings of a First-Time Homebuyer
...the average mortgage balance being $128,000 for first-time buyers and $152,000 for repeat buyers. Rising home prices during the housing bubble increased mortgages for repeat buyers more than for first-time...
Read More »The Real Estate Bubble of 2009: Then and Now
When the real estate bubble burst in 2009, home values plummeted driving home values into a Great Recession. The good news is, over the last 10 years housing prices have...
Read More »Where Home Prices Are Accelerating
...The report noted that although home construction in this CBSA had returned to pre-bubble rates, "housing supply may not be keeping up with population growth." Download the full report here....
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