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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced it has awarded $10 million in Rural Capacity Building grants, along with $12.5 million in grants through the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program, to help expand affordable housing and homeownership nationwide.

Although a national debt default is unlikely, new scenario projections from Zillow reveal home sales would decrease sharply. While home values would not lose much ground, a surge in mortgage rates would do further damage to nationwide housing affordability.

According to a new study from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, research highlighted how home values in majority-white neighborhoods have risen much faster than those in neighborhoods of color, as common trends in lower-income neighborhoods such as gentrification and displacement persist.

As nearly 18 million owner-occupied homes throughout the U.S. are now housing-cost-burdened, a new study from LendingTree revealed the share of households headed by single mothers are much more likely to overspend on housing costs than others.

According to a new report from Redfin, house hunters moving to a new area make up a bigger piece of the homebuying pie than ever, as record 25.1% of home searchers looked to relocate to a new metro in Q1.

According to Fannie Mae's Economic and Strategic Research Group expectations for Q1, the increase in the sales pace from the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2023 revealed that homebuying demand remains buoyant and was unexpectedly responsive to small declines in mortgage rates.

Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies released its Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity report, which projects that year-over-year expenditures for homeowner improvements and repairs will experience a near 3% decline through Q1 2024.

Freddie Mac reports the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage took a turn upward this week, rising 12-basis points week-over-week as investors responded to more healthy economic indicators and an uptick in bond yields.

While overall sales declined 22% from a year ago, existing-home sales dipped lower in March after month-over-month sales declined in three out of four major U.S. regions, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors.

According to a new report from the National Association of Realtors, middle-income homeowners gained more than $120,000 in wealth over the past decade, as homeowners who benefited from home price appreciation were able to drop their debt by 21%.