Cuts are expected to save borrowers $678 million a year but don’t apply to existing loans or release homeowners who have built up equity from…
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Longer loans, including a 50-year concept recently floated in the U.K., are sometimes framed as a way to improve housing affordability. But the experts aren’t…
A new interactive tool from the Urban Institute compares housing wealth equity in cities across America, tracking disparities in homeownership rates, home values, and the…
Looking at schools and infrastructure, realtor.com identified the most family-friendly suburb for each of the country’s 11 biggest cities. Source: Inman News
With home values soaring and mortgage rates still near historic lows, homeowners are cashing out home equity at volumes not seen since the height of…
Jim Parrott, a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute, said housing is “not an abstraction” for the president-elect on Thursday during the National Association of…
Knowing more about how FHA works — and how to work with FHA — helps agents identify opportunities for their first-time buyer clients, who make…
Higher down payments, coupled with poor savings habits, are making it very hard for millions of first-time buyers to save enough to buy a home.…
Mortgage rates will remain stable for the next two and a half years, predicts an economist from the Mortgage Bankers Association. But the national housing…