Housing Markets 40 Markets With Most Risk A new study of 40 U.S. metros ranks housing markets by risk, including mortgage payment delinquency rates, homeowner and rental vacancy rates, and foreclosure and negative equity rates.
Financing Homeowners Can Now Sell Home Equity For Cash California-based Point is a new company allowing homeowners to sell home equity to investors for cash. CNBC reports that the financial...
Financing Construction Sector Comes in Fourth in March Job Gains Construction saw 16,000 jobs added in March, making it the sector with the fourth-largest job growth. CNBC reports that construction came...
Financing How Manufacturing Jobs Are Impacting the Housing Market The National Association of Realtors (NAR) analyzed how gains in midwestern manufacturing jobs are affecting the housing market. In its...
Financing Where Are the Most ‘Housing-Burdened’ Americans? More than 10 percent of U.S. households are “severely housing-burdened”, spending at least half their income on housing costs. CityLabs...
Financing The Race to Refinance As mortgage rates drop, homeowners are taking advantage of refinancing in surprising numbers. Realtor.com reports that last week...
Financing Zillow Wants to Be Your Mortgage Lender Zillow recently rebranded Mortgage Lenders of America, which it purchased in August 2018, as Zillow Home Loans. The acquisition of the...
Financing Rising Property Taxes Hit California Metros Analysis by ValuePenguin shows that the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara region of California saw the largest increase in median property...
Financing When Wall Street Becomes Your Landlord Corporate landlords may be driving up single-family home prices in some cities. Bloomberg reports that in the wake of the 2008 financial...
Financing Falling Interest Rates May Push Up Home Prices After months of slowing growth, CoreLogic predicts that annual gains in home prices could rise again to 5 percent by 2020. This rate...
