by Jesse Williams | May 24, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Sales of new single-family homes continued to fall for the fourth-straight month in April, plummeting to their lowest level since before the pandemic. According to a joint report from the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the...
by Jesse Williams | May 23, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
A policy forum hosted by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and the Urban Institute last week titled, “Financing the Future,” added more details, more insights and more urgency to the interconnected crises of housing affordability, inequality, financing and...
by Jesse Williams | May 23, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
As the housing boom continues, with home prices setting records and rising rents further stretching Americans’ budgets, new data from Bankrate shows that 58% of U.S. adults would be willing to take action to find more affordable housing. This includes moving out...
by Jesse Williams | May 20, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Despite the solace of its recent courtroom victory, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) still has one of its most significant fights ahead. The organization has been pressured to provide expert reports and documentation from one commission-related case to...
by Jesse Williams | May 20, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
The U.S. median rental price hit a new high—$1,827—for the 14th month in a row, according to the latest Monthly Rental Report from realtor.com® released this week. And higher rents are increasingly cutting into households’ budgets for regular expenses and savings,...
by Jesse Williams | May 19, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
In some markets, the numbers are cartoonish. The city of Punta Gorda, Florida—a gulf coast suburb with a population of around 20,000 about an hour’s drive north of Fort Myers—saw home prices rise almost 30% between spring of 2021 and 2022, a third more than the...