Despite positive outlooks from sellers, homebuyers are less optimistic as this spring shopping season begins.
Read More »Delinquencies and Foreclosure Starts Edge Lower
Black Knight, Inc., a Florida based provider of software, data, and analytics for the mortgage and real estate industries, released their First Look data analysis report on Thursday, analyzing February 2018 mortgage performance data. This report found foreclosure starts reversing ...
Read More »Rental Markets vs. Buyer Markets
Do real estate market conditions favor buying or renting? The Beracha, Hardin & Johnson Buy vs. Rent Index is designed to provide guidance to consumers struggling with that choice. The index, conceived by faculty from Florida International and Florida Atlantic ...
Read More »These Are the Most Dangerous U.S. Cities
NeighborhoodScout, a web-based analytics platform, recently released its 2018 list of the Top 100 Most Dangerous U.S. Cities. They compiled the list by examining violent crime reports of cities with a minimum population of 25,000. They then took the number of crimes reported ...
Read More »Availability Over Location: Housing Market Shifts Focus
Buying a house in 2018 has become steadily more intricate with consistent declines in availability and continued price increases, according to an analysis by Realtor.com that identified a shift in buyer activity. The report analyzed thousands of views to Realtor.com’s ...
Read More »Puerto Rico Receives Mixed Messages From Treasury, FHA
The U.S. Treasury cut a disaster relief loan to Puerto Rico by over 50 percent this week, according to the island’s Gov. Ricardo Rossello. This relief fund of $4.7 billion was provided in October, during the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, ...
Read More »San Francisco and San Jose Approaching Pre-Crash Highs
The most recent Home Value Forecast (HVF) Monthly Housing Report by Pro Teck caught its readers with a bit of a surprise. There were some new additions to the company’s top 10 list of core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) that saw ...
Read More »Top 5 Cities to Rent and to Own a Home
Manhattan, New York and Santa Barbara, California are among the most expensive places to buy a home, but the best places to rent, while Baltimore, Maryland and Clayton County, Georgia, are the best counties to buy a home according to ...
Read More »Manhattan, San Francisco Least Affordable U.S. Markets
A new report pinpoints Vancouver as the most unaffordable housing market in North America, but Manhattan and San Francisco are close behind. What other U.S. cities top the list?
Read More »Freddie Mac Reports Portfolio Update
Freddie Mac’s just released its newest volume summary, providing a breakdown of everything mortgage-related from the GSE.
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