Economics Mortgage Application Volume Muted Despite Lower Rates In the last week of 2018, mortgage interest rates hit a four month low, yet total mortgage application volume fell by nearly double digits...
Economics National Equity Grew 49 Percent in Nearly 7 Years Since February 2012, American homeowners have gained a collective 49 percent in total home equity, standing today at $33.3 trillion. Equity...
Economics Shifting Home Values Based on new home price appreciation data, real estate experts are saying that the real estate market may favor buyers in 2019, though the...
Affordability Americans See Housing Affordability Crisis, Survey Shows NAHB Housing Policy Briefing | Almost three out of four Americans believe the U.S. has a housing affordability crisis, according to a National Association of Home Builders survey
Green Projects 7 Best Prefab Homes of 2018 2018 brought new innovation and ideas to the growing prefab housing industry. Here are 7 of the year’s most impressive projects, according...
Building Technology Survey: Builders Adopting Off-Site Construction Methods A new survey from Home Innovation Research Labs shows that builders are more quickly adopting off-site home construction methods. The...
Trends How Tax Reform Is Affecting Luxury Markets Mansion Global analyzed how the most recent U.S. tax bill has affected luxury home markets over the year since it took effect. The Tax...
Sales Pending Home Sales Fall to Four-Year Low The National Association of Realtor’s pending home sales index fell 0.7 percent in November to a four-year low of 101.4. MarketWatch...
Home Technology Can Real Estate Tech Handle Shifting Markets? The housing market’s recent growth has given rise to a variety of new real estate technology companies. But can they survive the shifting...
New-Home Sales The Year of the First-Time Buyer Due to pent-up demand, NerdWallet predicts that first-time homebuyers will dominate the market in 2019. Eighty percent of growth in home...
