Affordability Risk Potential As high demand spurs home price growth and fierce competition, constraining a supply of affordable homes, experts are watching for potential ramifications, including other, riskier behaviors
Market Data + Trends Mortgage Volume Down Despite Lower Rates Mortgage rates dipped last week to 4.84 percent from 4.86 percent, but total mortgage application volume dropped as well, down 2.9 percent. ...
Market Data + Trends Purchasing Power Is Best in These Cities Nationally, homebuyer purchasing power is diminishing in the face of sustained, rising prices, demand, and mortgage rates. New analysis...
Market Data + Trends Cities With Least, Most Cost-Burdened Households Almost 7 million U.S. households were severely housing cost-burdened, spending more than 50 percent of their income on housing, in 2016, per...
Market Data + Trends Latest Home Price Data Signal 'Incredibly Competitive, Disheartening' Summer Market The latest reading from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices, through March 2018, reveal that home prices are still climbing...
Market Data + Trends Buying Still Beats Renting, Despite Rising Mortgage Rates New analysis from MarketWatch found that for many, investing in a home can beat renting costs in the long run, despite rising mortgage rates...
Market Data + Trends Baby Boomers Are Changing the Map The graying of America has led to a shift in the country’s demographic makeup. Analysis by The Conversation looked at where the Baby...
Market Data + Trends Single Women Buy Homes Twice as Often as Men Survey data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows that single women made 18 percent of all home purchases last year,...
Market Data + Trends Three Trends in Today’s Retirement Living As the senior population in the U.S. continues to rise, retirees are looking for apartment living, active lifestyles, and rural locations. ...
Market Data + Trends America’s Shifting Demographics A new demographic tool from the Pew Research Center highlights the differences between urban, suburban, and rural communities. The Center...
