Income growth, slower home price appreciation, and falling mortgage rates all combined to ease housing affordability in the first quarter of 2019, running roughly even over the previous year.
The top 10 states where upper-middle-class people are moving are located in the South and the West. Six were in the South, including top-ranked Florida.
Many urbanists argue that building more housing will help ease the affordability crunch. A forthcoming paper argues that city economies are at the heart of growing spatial inequality
In a study tackling affordability for the spectrum of middle class buyers, online loan marketplace LendingTree broke out the data by lower-, middle-, and upper-middle class subgroups.
Based on new data, there are now more than 2 million solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the U.S., doubling the number of installations since 2016.
In the first quarter of 2018, the share of for-sales homes in the U.S. did not post an annual decline for the first time since Q3 2016. Starter and trade-up home supply grew 3.5 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively.
In April, 15 percent of offers written by Redfin agents on for-sale homes in the U.S. faced competition, posting a "dramatic" 45 percent year-over-year drop.
According to a new report, the housing market is not doing enough to bring in Millennials, as traditional affordability measures are skewed toward existing homeowners.
Boulder, Colo. is best for biking, according to the latest national rankings in the PlacesForBikes City Rating. Boulder residents are 20 times more likely to commute to work on a bicycle than the average American.
