Housing affordability is down nationwide as mortgage rates have increased in February, according to The National Association of Realtors’ latest affordability index. Housing affordability declined 8.7 percent from 175.9 in February 2016 to 160.6 in February 2017. The

  With all the talk of Millennials and how they fit into the housing market, Generation X doesn’t get a lot of attention as a home-buying population. Gen X-ers, aged 37 to 51 years, make up the second largest

  New homes are getting bigger, which has helped in balancing out price appreciation while the market sees low inventory and high demand, reports CoreLogic Chief Economist Frank Nothaft, based on Census Bureau data on new residential construction.   What’s changed?

  More renters are saying they have no plans to move this year and have no interest in owning a home, according to a new survey from Freddie Mac. The survey also found that the expectation to purchase a

Homes sold faster this March than any other March in seven years, thanks to rising demand and still-shrinking inventory, according to Redfin’s recent housing market report. Home sales jumped 9 percent in March when compared with March 2016, even as

Vacation home sales have dropped significantly, according to a recent study by the National Association of Realtors. Only accounting for 12 percent of all transactions in 2016, vacation home sales fell to an estimated 721,000 transactions—the lowest since 2013 (which saw

  Tesla announced their new solar panels on their website last weekend, offering an alternative option from their solar roof tiles released last fall, which Tesla will begin taking orders for this month. The panels are expected to have an install

A nationwide inventory shortage is hampering the housing market’s growth, but the shortage isn’t uniformly affecting every market. In fact, a market is more likely to have a housing shortage if its housing prices have recovered to pre-crash highs,

  Housing confidence fell 3.8 percentage points in March following a survey high in February, according to Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index ®. The net share of Americans who say it is a good time to buy fell

When building a high-rise apartment complex, it helps to envision the future occupants of the building and their desires. It’s even better if the developer is a future occupant. That’s what Curt Bailey, president of Related Midwest, learned from

With all the talk of Millennials and how they fit into the housing market, retirement-age Baby Boomers don’t get a lot of attention as a home-buying population. The numbers show, however, that “Older Boomers” aged 62 to 70 years

The average mortgage size is $318,200, which is the largest it has been in the 27-years of The Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly purchase loan data survey. There are multiple factors leading to higher mortgages in the United States beyond larger

LGBT people have protection against housing discrimination under the Federal Fair Housing Act, a federal judge ruled for the first time last week. The federal law prevents landlords from refusing to rent or sell housing to anyone based on

  Nearly 50 years after the passing of the Fair Housing Act, minority households still have lower ownership rates and higher rent burdens than white households, a recent study by Trulia found. But progress made in some cities is

  First-time homebuyers accounted for 32 percent of all residential sales in February 2017, marking minimal change from January 2017 (33 percent) and February of last year (30 percent), according to the National Association of Realtors. Nationally, demand has

Existing housing inventory has reached historic lows, making the housing market very favorable to sellers. But that doesn’t always mean that sellers get what they’re asking for, according to a study by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Nationwide,