by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 28, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
The cards are stacked against millennial homebuyers—and the deck is high in the country’s most coveted markets. A new report by Bankrate.com identifies the states where affordability, credit accessibility, employment, the homeownership rate and supply pose...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 27, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News, Trending |
Pending home sales faltered in January to a 12-month low, despite a simultaneous shoot-up in existing-home sales, according to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) declined 2.8 percent to 106.4, with the PHSI sinking...
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...