Market Data + Trends Mortgage Demand Increases for First Time This Month After a brief pause for the presidential election, mortgage applications are now back to booming. For the week, mortgage applications to...
Coronavirus Resources and Information Why Housing Has Boomed During a Pandemic The pandemic resulted in a near perfect situation for the housing market: Local governments mandated that people stay indoors as much as...
Coronavirus Resources and Information Vaccine News Affects Single-Family Home Builder Stocks Unlike the rest of the stock market, stocks from some of the country’s largest builders dropped yesterday amid COVID-19 vaccine news. Pfizer...
Economics Election Drops Mortgage Rates to 12th New Low This Year CNBC says the presidential election pushed mortgage rates even lower this week, breaking the 12th record this year. For the week ending...
Financing Refinancing Boosts Mortgage Demand The Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index found an increase in mortgage demand last week, fueled by record low rates for...
Market Data + Trends Read Between the Lines of Housing Market Numbers HousingWire warns about being led astray by negative headlines. Instead, focus on specific data to gauge housing market activity and how it...
Financials Homeownership Wealth Gains for Second Quarter of 2020 Based on the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finance data, homeownership accounts for 90% of total wealth among all families. In the bottom 20%...
Coronavirus Resources and Information As the Housing Market Booms, Millions of Americans Miss Mortgage Payments Mortgage delinquency rates are higher now than anytime in the past 20 years, including the Great Recession. It is predicted that 2 million...
Coronavirus Resources and Information Will Expiring Eviction Moratoriums Spur a Housing Crisis? While federal and local eviction moratoriums are protecting many from eviction, there remains a large number of renters who have been unable...
Market Data + Trends August Home Price Growth Rate Sees 2-Year High The top 20 cities in the US all experienced greater home price increases in August compared to July, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case...
