Many Millennials have had to substitute student loan debt for mortgage debt, delaying buying a home. A new study finds the current cost of starter homes in every state in the union.
Crumbling affordability continues to impact Americans' homeownership plans, as Q1 data show that fewer adults said they intend to buy over the next 12 months.
Recent data from Case-Shiller show that the long-run return on homeownership is low, and while some say consumers would be better off investing in equities, one expert says that conclusion is "wrongheaded" in a variety of ways.
A new study of U.S. cities where homeowners pay $1,000 per month on their mortgage shows that despite ongoing national affordability woes, some markets remain affordable.
Utah home prices are continuing their upward trend and many buyers are now priced out of local for-sale homes. Builder Clark Ivory is "on the warpath" to add more affordable supply.
Income growth, slower home price appreciation, and falling mortgage rates all combined to ease housing affordability in the first quarter of 2019, running roughly even over the previous year.
In a study tackling affordability for the spectrum of middle class buyers, online loan marketplace LendingTree broke out the data by lower-, middle-, and upper-middle class subgroups.
In the first quarter of 2018, the share of for-sales homes in the U.S. did not post an annual decline for the first time since Q3 2016. Starter and trade-up home supply grew 3.5 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively.
