Tag Archives: Homeownership

First-time buyers are often faced with several barriers to homeownership including student loans, down payment savings, and balancing multiple financial priorities, but they ultimately express a desire to own a home.

Young homeowners face many barriers of entry in the housing market, but these young buyers are using an alternate source of funding to get a mortgage loan.

While the industry shudders at the thought of a change to the cherished mortgage interest deduction, the future of homeownership could stand to benefit from such a change.

There is an interruption occurring in the housing market. Homeowership numbers among Generation X have quickly went from first to last due to lingering effects from the housing bust.

Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute, Mark A. Calabria, sat down with MReport and explained some of the hot-button issues affecting the mortgage space including the economy, regulation, compliance, homeownership, and the upcoming election.

Lindsey Johnson, President and Executive Director of U.S. Mortgage Insurers sat down with MReport to explain how private mortgage insurers are completely changing the housing game.

The homebuying process still troubles many borrowers of all demographics due to the complexity associated with the mortgage application process.

A question on the minds of many older Americans trying to find balance between their housing needs and financial situations as they prepare to retire is the decision to rent or own a home.

While many housing fundamentals have been nearing their pre-recession levels for months or even years in some cases, the nationwide homeownership rate sank to a 48-year low of 63.4 percent in the second quarter of 2015.

The millennial generation has been dubbed the generation that is not interested in purchasing a home, whether it be due to renting, living with their parents, or because they are saddled with student loan debt.