Market Data + Trends

Financing

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...

Single-Family Homes

Geologists recently announced the discovery of a massive oil field in West Texas, one that will lead to increased oil and gas output but may...

Financing

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...

Innovation

The rising costs of building a house have pushed builders towards focusing on high-end homes where the profits are bigger. First-time buyers...

Economics

After the presidential election and a big sell-off in the bond market, the average interest rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage increased...

Single-Family Homes

Trulia’s 2017 Housing Outlook explores Millennial buyers, rising mortgage rates, and the markets to watch

Codes + Standards

A shortage of affordable housing is forcing Americans to stay where they are even when their communities have a shortage of jobs. It would...

Codes + Standards

An analysis by real-estate listing website Trulia in the 20 highest priced U.S. housing markets from 1996 to 2006 found that residential...

Affordability

The popularity of room and home rental services like Airbnb and HomeAway are not expected to have a big effect on housing affordability. ...

Market Data + Trends

In the 50 largest metropolitan areas, 79 percent of people live in the suburbs. ULI released a new report, Housing in the Evolving...

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December