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Vacation Home Sales Fell 22 Percent Last Year

Rising home prices are influencing more people to rent rather than buy their vacation homes. CNBC reports that sales of vacation homes...

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Teachers, first responders, and restaurant workers are being priced out of popular housing markets

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A return to more typical homeownership rates could have added more than $300 billion to the economy last year

Single-Family Homes

Older Boomers were quite active in the housing market in 2016, as 14 percent of homebuyers were between 62 and 70. The group was also the...

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The combined company will operate in 10 states in the west and southeast

Economics

The Upside Of The 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage

Even as rates change, buyers desire the affordability, flexibility, and stability that a 30-year fixed-rate loan offers. Freddie Mac says...

Single-Family Homes

The median home price in Seattle has reached $700,000, which is twice as high as it was during the housing bust five years ago. Prices have...

Economics

March 11 was a good day for solar in California. Fortune reports that for a brief time that day, utility-scale solar accounted for 40...

Economics

While 70 percent of people between 18 and 39 in the San Francisco region are in favor of new housing in their neighborhoods, only 57 percent...

Economics

The 20 Percent Downpayment Is A Rarity Today

According to the February edition of the Realtors Confidence Index Survey Report, 80 percent of first-time buyers who obtained a mortgage...

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