A swirl of debts and harsh realities is keeping more first-time buyers out of the American Dream. But there are encouraging signs amid the chaos of a dry housing market.
Read More »The Week Ahead: Existing Home Sales and Housing Starts Stats
The housing starts and existing home sales reports have been scheduled to release later this week. See the most recent data and more in the Week Ahead.
Read More »Existing Home Sales Continue to Drop in August
According to the National Association of Realtors Existing-Home Sales report for August, total inventory dropped again, which is the fourth time in five months that a decline was recorded.
Read More »Real Estate Market Could Be Pivoting
The real estate market could be pivoting away from traditional models, according to a report by CNBC. A six percent commission was all but standard in the past—since then, brokers have reduced that significantly to keep up with increasing competition.
Read More »NAR Fights For the Homeowner
The National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Iona Harrison, Chair of NAR’s Federal Taxation Committee, testified before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday during a hearing entitled “Individual Housing Reform.”
Read More »Is the Real Estate Market Changing?
Most Realtors agree, according to a recent survey, that the landscape of their industry is changing. What aspects of real estate do firms believe will be important in the year to come?
Read More »The Home Price Eclipse
The current imbalance of supply and demand in the housing market has caused second quarter home price results to continue on its path, overshadowing 2016 numbers. However, could these numbers point to crisis?
Read More »Housing: 6 Months in Under 60 Seconds
What’s happened so far this year in real estate? Take a look at the stats for foreign buying, overall sale, sales prices, and more in the Video Spotlight.
Read More »Housing Affordability: The Demographic Divide
Other than the issue of demographic divide, the overall opinion on the housing market isn’t changing the ways consumers think about home buying, according to the latest National Housing Pulse Survey. See what potential homebuyers find most and least important here.
Read More »Just a Little to the Left…
Though the concept of home staging is by no means new, not all decorating endeavors have the same impact. Learn where successful sellers’ agents put their budgets.
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