Sales Rising Mortgage Rates Push Buyers Toward Less Expensive Homes Rates for 30-year-fixed mortgages rose to 4.08 percent last week, rising half a percent in less than a month. A Redfin survey revealed...
Codes + Standards D.C. Council Passes Bill To Reduce Number Of Blighted Properties The Washington D.C. Council recently passed legislation that will make it more expensive for owners to hold vacant or blighted property. The...
Economics Mortgage Delinquency Declines But Student Loan, Credit Card, And Auto Loan Debt Piles Up After hitting a peak of 8.9 percent in 2010, the share of 90-plus day delinquency on mortgages has dipped to only 1.6 percent in Q1 of 2016....
Sales Foreign Buyers Eye Seattle Due To Vancouver Housing Tax Plan In August, Vancouver passed a 15 percent tax on foreign homebuyers, a measure to curb soaring home values and thwart wealthy buyers from...
Single-Family Homes Residential Construction Employment Up Nearly 5 Percent From Last Year The nation added 178,000 non-farm jobs in November, and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.6 percent last month. Zillow broke down the...
Economics The Best Cities To Live With An Average Paycheck Lots of open jobs, respectable salaries, and reasonable home values makes a city like Dallas the place to be. CNBC analyzed a new report...
Market Data + Trends 10 Underrated Cities For Outstanding Food Aside from Skyline Chili, which has its share of fans and detractors, Cincinnati has a strong cuisine scene, with both high-caliber...
Sales Buyers Rely On The Internet To Find A House, But Real Estate Agents Remain Valuable More than half of buyers in 2016 found the home they purchased on the internet, the first time a majority relied on the web to find a...
Multifamily Major Markets Experience Flat And Falling Rent Prices Rent prices are still high in New York City, as a certain niche political party has famously pointed out, but the rates are leveling or...
Codes + Standards U.S. Lumber Industry Pushes For Import Duties On Canadian Softwood Leaders in the U.S. lumber industry are lobbying the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission to put import...
