by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 26, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
Housing is set to smash records in February, with realtor.com® forecasting both the fewest days on market since the recession and the month’s highest list prices—an early start to the spring home-buying season, says realtor.com Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke....
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 26, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
Housing markets in the South are experiencing higher levels of appreciation than those in California, which had been at the forefront of rising values, according to the Zillow Real Estate Market Reports for January. Appreciation in Nashville, Tenn., surpassed that of...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 26, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
New-home sales showed improvement in January—but left room to grow—at 555,000, a 3.7 percent increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The average new-home sales price was $360,900, while the median was...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 25, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
Mortgage rates showed minimal movement this week, marking the fourth week in a row of negligible change, according to Freddie Mac’s recently released Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®). The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.16 percent with an 0.5...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 23, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
Home prices edged up 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, totaling 6.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) recently released House Price Index (HPI). The HPI—based on prices for homes with...
by Suzanne De Vita | Feb 22, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
Existing-home sales began 2017 with a bang, growing 3.3 percent and hitting a 10-year high in January, according to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). With the exception of the Midwest, every region saw gains, with total sales reaching 5.69 million—the...