Sales Housing Market Expected To Grow At A Slower Pace Next Year Redfin predicts that in 2017, Millennials will move to smaller major cities, new construction growth will slow, and mortgage rates will rise only slightly
Single-Family Homes Small Cities Best Suited For First-Time Buyers Gilbert, Ariz., is still recovering from the recession, and first-time buyers can take advantage of that. The growing city features good...
Economics Fed Raises Key Interest Rate By 0.25 Percent Three or more rate hikes are expected to occur in 2017
Economics A Look At Gradual And Sudden Changes In Mortgage Rates This Year In 2016, mortgage rates surprisingly remained consistently low for the first 10 months before shooting up after the presidential election. ...
Economics Rents In San Diego Expected To Rise In 2017 San Diego is already one of the nation’s most expensive cities. That’s not changing next year for renters. The Los Angeles Times reports...
Builders A Closer Look at Impact Fees Just because impact fees have been around since the 1970s doesn’t mean they should be any local jurisdiction’s primary solution for...
Financing How Buyers Fund Their Downpayments Buyers still use their savings to pay for a downpayment for a new house. Via statistics from the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, NAR...
Financing Rising Mortgage Rates Cut Down 4.3 Million Potential Refinance Candidates Thirty-year-fixed mortgage rates held steady this week at 4.34 percent, but the the rise in rates over the last month has hurt those that...
Single-Family Homes Pundits That Say Homeownership Doesn’t Work Are Wrong, Says Author Some financial writers—not strawmen, but honest-to-goodness people—have made arguments recently that buying a home is unwise. They say that...
Economics Increase In Mortgage Rates Makes Homes $16,000 More Expensive After the presidential election and a big sell-off in the bond market, the average interest rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage increased...
