Interest Rates Are Rising—but the Fed’s Actions Could Make It Easier To Get a Mortgage
This week’s increase to the benchmark mortgage rate is likely just the beginning. The Federal Reserve is scaling back its stimulus activities at a q...
Inflation is a red-hot topic right now, and for good reason: In October, the annual inflation rate rose to an alarming 6.2%. That’s the highest it’s hit since November 1990, over 30 years ago, and a steep uptick from the manageable 2% that ...
In September, 58.9% of home offers faced competition—a record low for 2021. That’s down from a revised rate of 60.8% in August and a peak of 74.3% in April.
September marked the 5th straight month of declines, putting the bidding-war rat...
Low interest rates, pandemic-era savings and a hybrid-work revolution are making it more feasible for people to split their time.
In the Before Times, people had to make a choice: Squeeze into the chaos and energy of the city, or l...
Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a pair of bills into law that effectively put an end to traditional single-family zoning restrictions in most neighborhoods statewide.
Senate Bills 9 and 10, which take effect Jan. 1, 2022, will make it eas...
Housing markets are hotter than ever, and big money is getting in on the act.
Pension funds, investment firms and Wall Street banks are snapping up family homes in Europe and the United States at a rapid pace as prices rocket higher, ...
Today’s hot housing market is one of the peculiar outcrops of the pandemic. Housing supply was already low before Covid-19, but it was further hampered as lockdowns took place and people began looking for new homes, driven by a host of reason...
Cash purchases are on the rise as Americans reap the benefits of a strong stock market. The S&P 500 Index has gained 36% in the past 12 months alone.
“I’ve never seen more cash in Boise's housing market than I’ve seen in the past ...
Last month the government revealed several tax proposals that could affect real estate investors. The most talked about involves curtailing 1031 exchanges, a long-standing and regularly used strategy for deferring capital gains taxes of income ...
Over the past few weeks, the rate of price growth has begun to slow and fewer buyers are seeking mortgages to purchase homes. The competition for available homes, while still formidable, may not be quite as intense as it’s been. And this coul...