Affordability The Housing Crisis Is Coming for the Middle Class Curbed reports that new research shows the lack of affordable housing is slowly trickling up to affect the middle class. A new paper by...
Economics How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Is Affecting Housing John Burns Real Estate Consulting reports that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will likely benefit the majority of homeowners and renters. ...
Sales Coming Soon: A Buyers’ Market? It’s a buyers’ market for home shoppers this spring, say housing economists and analysts. Slowing price increases, lower mortgage rates, and...
New-Home Sales Homebuyer Outlook Begins to Improve The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that 22% of homebuyers expect their search to get easier over the next year, up...
Economics Mortgages and the International Trade War Turmoil in the stock and bond markets due to the escalating trade dispute between the U.S. and China pushed down interest rates for home...
Sales Mortgage Rates Dropped But So Did Home Sales High prices and a tight supply still dog existing U.S. home sales despite a decline in mortgage interest rates. Sales slipped 0.4% in...
Economics The Amazon Effect: A Rabid Sellers’ Market Arlington, Va., is a sellers’ market thanks to Amazon’s announcement almost seven months ago that it will open a second headquarters in the...
Economics Changing Face of America Will Test the Housing Market The mortgage market has a long history of underserving communities of color and that oversight, long deemed a moral problem, eventually will...
Economics Millennial Homebuyers May Never Come Knocking New home construction and real estate industry watchers have been talking for a while about how Millennials are going to reinvigorate the...
Opinion COMMENTARY: San Francisco's IPO Surge Following the wave of IPOs hitting Silicon Valley, local real estate experts predicted that San Francisco would be overcome by a deluge of freshly minted homebuyers. One expert begs to differ.
