by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 23, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
The national median home value has careened to over $200,000 for the first time, with a 7.4 percent annual gain rocketing it to a new high of $200,400, according to the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) in the June Zillow® Real Estate Market Reports. Values in 10 of the...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 23, 2017 | Buying/Selling, House Canary, Latest News, News, Trending |
Affording a mortgage payment is possible for many prospective homeowners. Why then, by all accounts, is unaffordability plaguing the market? Researchers at Freddie Mac offered several takes on the answer in its latest Insight, suggesting that homebuyers having a hard...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 22, 2017 | Buying/Selling, House Canary, Latest News, National, News, Trending |
Affordability is at the forefront of the minds of first-time homebuyers, who are contending with climbing prices and fierce competition. There are other considerations, however, that are important for first-time buyers, as well: cost of living, property crime rate,...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 22, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, Latest News, News |
Many homeowners have enjoyed a return to positive equity in recent years, with home prices on a consistent upward trend in most markets. How high will values go? Potentially not much further, according to consumers in the June 2017 Survey of Consumer Expectations by...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 22, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, House Canary, Latest News, News |
Real estate is the long-term investment of choice for Americans, who in a recent survey by Bankrate.com placed it ahead of bonds, cash, gold and stocks as the best method of building wealth over time. Real estate is now the chosen vehicle for the third consecutive...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 20, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
Mortgage rates are retreating after two weeks of upward momentum, according to Freddie Mac’s recently released Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®). The 30-year, fixed rate, on average, is 3.96 percent, down from 4.03 percent the week prior, and the 15-year,...