New-Home Sales Hurricanes and Tight Supply Push Home-Contract Signings Near Two-Year Low The National Association of Realtors slashed its forecast for 2017 sales after Americans signed fewer home buying contracts for the fifth...
Government + Policy How Trump’s Tax Plan Will Impact Homebuyers and Owners Some real estate experts doubt whether President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts for helping the middle-class and spurring business will be...
Market Data + Trends New Housing Supply Up Despite Sales Decline Realtor.com reports that at the current sales rate, there were 6.1 months of new homes on the market at the end of August. This is the...
Market Data + Trends New Home Sales Drop To Eight-Month Low New home sales fell 3.4 percent at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) from July to August, declining for the second month in a row....
Market Data + Trends Generation Z Optimistic About Homeownership According to a new Zillow report, 57 percent of current Generation Z renters are confident that they will move into their own home in the...
Market Data + Trends Seattle Has Hottest Real Estate Market The price of the average single family home in the Seattle area increased 13.5 percent in the past 12 months, more than twice the national...
Market Data + Trends Home Prices Increase More Than Forecasted Analysis from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller showed that home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose higher than predicted levels. Bloomberg...
Market Data + Trends Mortgage Payments on the Rise CoreLogic reports that mortgage rates have gone up one half percentage since last summer, meaning payments for many home buyers have...
Market Data + Trends U.S. Housing Market Increasingly Unhealthy From afar, the U.S. housing market looks healthy, with high demand and low mortgage rates. But on the ground, expensive supply mismatched...
New-Home Marketing Home Price Growth Slows, Even as Inventory Drops A recent Black Knight Financial Service analysis found that the rise home prices is beginning to stabilize. Despite the slowdown, the amount...