Tag Archives: Home Prices

While winter months typically provide an expected seasonal cooling of the housing market, there are two other pressing factors in the equation that are keep buyers out of the market.

In the midst of tight supply, heightened competition for buyers, and unpredictable financial markets, U.S. home prices continued to rise in December.

In the midst of tight supply, heightened competition for buyers, and unpredictable financial markets, U.S. home prices continued to rise in the fourth quarter.

While home prices are still rising due to buyer demand and low inventories, supported by low mortgage rates, eased lending standards, and improving job markets, they are doing so at a much slower pace.

After suffering a major drop in November 2015 and recovering with the largest monthly increase ever recorded in December, existing-home sales seem to have found their balance to start the new year.

Zillow says there is a direct link to immigration and construction labor costs. See how this correlation will affect home builders.

Although home prices have been on the rise for the last few years, Black Knight Financial Services says homes are much more affordable than the were prior to the housing crisis.

Home prices have been consistently rising for the last few years, but it looks like that slow growth housing market that economists have been predicting for 2016 may have started early.

Home prices in the U.S. housing market has seen some major gains over the last few years, but you will be surprised to know that much of this growth is stemming from homes that are priced 75 percent or less of the median home price.

Although Fitch Ratings expects housing and mortgage markets to experience a reduction in activity in 2016, compared to the booming year we have had in the industry last year, they do not project the picture to be totally bleak.