...housing affordability and historically low mortgage rates,"" Stan Humphries, chief economist with Zillow, said in a statement. Zillow found declines for home values year-over-year by 5.1 percent to $147,900, as...
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Online Mortgage Resource Promises 24-Hour Quotes
...including educational articles on mortgage basics, credit score collection information, and mortgage affordability data. ""We have those helpful articles there for a single reason - to help people to become...
Read More »Mortgage Rates Largely Unchanged This Week. Again
...2.80 percent this week from 2.78 percent last week. ""These low rates and home prices have pushed housing affordability to record highs this year,"" ""Frank Nothaft"":http://www.freddiemac.com/bios/exec/nothaft.html, VP and chief economist...
Read More »Pending-Home Sales Jump 9.2% in October: NAR
All-time highs for housing affordability helped elevate pending-home sales for October 9.2 percent above figures seen over the same month last year, with fewer bad appraisals scuttling deals across the...
Read More »Existing-Home Sales Rise 13.5% Year-Over-Year: NAR
...sales such as job creation, rising rents and high affordability conditions,"" he said. ""Many people who are attempting to buy homes are thwarted in the process."" NAR tracked one trend...
Read More »Starts Decline Only 0.3% in October, Beating Forecasts
...saying, ""We're still at the bottom but greatly beginning to move up in the right direction."" All-time highs for housing affordability keep the market extremely attractive to homebuyers, with rates...
Read More »Homebuilder Confidence Highest Since 2010: NAHB
...addressed so that housing can contribute to economic and job growth the way it has in the past,"" he added. Despite all-time highs for affordability, homeowners remain largely on the...
Read More »Flagging Numbers Show Faltering Market in San Diego
...only 36 percent of the market share in San Diego, showing that buyers' affordability levels are continuing to move downward. Commenting on the results of October's survey, The Berkland Group...
Read More »Q3 Home Prices Fall While Some State Sales Rise
...of the housing market's all-time affordability. ""Housing affordability conditions have been at a record high this year, rents are rising and homes are selling for less than the cost of...
Read More »Furor Mounts Over $13M in GSE Exec Bonuses
...in the SEC filing by explaining that executives met 2010 goals that included injecting ""liquidity, stability and affordability [into] the U.S. housing and mortgage markets."" Furor over the bonuses follows...
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