Frenzied Pace Of Home-Price Gains May Have Peaked
The dizzying increases in home prices seen earlier this year may have peaked, according to data from HouseCanary.
September 18, 2021 2 MIN
Half of Student Loan Holders Say Their College Debt Prevents Home Purchase
Half of Americans with student loans who don’t own property say their debt from college is keeping them from buying a home, NAR said.
September 17, 2021 2 MIN
U.S. Treasury Lifts Trump Era Restrictions on Low-Down-Payment Mortgages
Lifting the restrictions will allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to aid in expanding homeownership to more Americans without increasing risk, said Jaret Seiberg, managing director at Cowen Group in Washington D.C.
September 15, 2021 2 MIN
Inflation in August Is ‘Off the Boil But Still Hot,’ Wells Fargo Says
The pace of inflation, one of the key drivers of mortgage rates, eased in August as reduced demand resulting from a resurgence of Covid-19 infections offset some of the supply-chain bottlenecks created by the pandemic.
September 14, 2021 2 MIN
Fed Says Consumers Expect Inflation to Rise, Home-Price Growth to Moderate
Inflation expectations among Americans in August rose to the highest ever recorded in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s survey of consumers while their outlook for home-price growth moderated.
September 13, 2021 2 MIN
U.S. Housing Market Is Missing 5.2 Million Single-Family Homes
If builders were able to double this year’s increased pace of new home production, it still would take five to six years to close the gap, according to a report from Realtor.com.
September 10, 2021 2 MIN
Homeowner ‘Tappable Equity’ Reaches an All-Time High of $9.2 Trillion
The amount of home equity homeowners could tap gained $1 trillion in the second quarter as record home-price increases made real estate more valuable.
September 8, 2021 2 MIN
Job Growth Stalls on Delta Surge, Giving Fed Cover to Delay Taper
Nonfarm payrolls increased 235,000, the slowest pace since January, as a Delta-driven resurgence of the pandemic kept many consumers at home.
September 3, 2021 3 MIN
