Last month’s buyers faced one of the most competitive markets to date, according to Redfin’s May 2017 housing market report. As homes flew off the market and supply continued to decrease, speed of home sales and buyer competition hit

Americans are moving less often than ever before, and this new trend in decreasing mobility is having a major effect on the real estate industry. About 11 percent of Americans moved between 2015 and 2016, a decrease of 6

Apartment demand is already tight in many cities across the country, and without an increase of inventory, it may become more difficult to find affordable market-based housing options. A new study from the Hoyt Advisory Services and commissioned by

Fannie Mae has made home purchasing easier for a number of people – including Millennials – by raising its debt-to-income (DTI) threshold. According to the Washington Post, Fannie Mae’s DTI ceiling will be raised from 45 percent to 50 percent

Real estate agents are concerned that political uncertainty and the disruptive nature of new technology will affect their business this year, according to the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE). CRE unveiled its 2017-2018 Top Ten Issues Affect Real Estate

As Millennials increasingly warm to the idea of homeownership and Baby Boomers begin thinking about selling their homes, one wrinkle in the homebuying cycle has appeared: no one wants to buy McMansions. What is now a staple of suburban

This Olalla, Washington, fairytale house truly turns a childhood fantasy into reality and is now on the market for $895,000. The walls have a cave-like appearance and plaster icicles hang from the ceilings in two of the bedrooms. It

Wealthy preppers rejoice – there is a luxurious new way to get ready for the apocalypse. Trident Lakes, located about an hour and a half outside of Dallas, is building a community of 500 multi-story concrete condos partially buried

The number of people who are late or behind on their mortgage is at the lowest rate in 10 years. According to CoreLogic’s monthly Loan Performance Insights Report released Tuesday, 4.4 percent of mortgages nationwide were delinquent, compared with 5.2

Star Trek’s USS Enterprise has docked itself within Boca Ranton’s country club community, where Star Trek superfan Marc Bell transformed his home theater into an exact replica of the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. His $29.95-million-dollar mansion has nine

Now more than ever, residents of large American cities face a conundrum when deciding whether to rent or buy. Renting is increasingly popular in major markets as housing prices in these desirable areas keep creeping up. Now, Zillow has

Rosen Consulting Group (RCG) partnered with the National Association of Realtors and found five reasons for the United States’ declining homeownership rate, according to research released recently. RCG found post-foreclosure stress disorder, mortgage availability, student loan debt, single-family housing

Despite a slight increase in recent months, home flipping has now hit a two-year low, and home flippers are seeing lower returns on their investment, according to the Q1 2017 U.S. Home Flipping Report by ATTOM Data Solutions. Home

Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) saw a slight drop of .05 percentage points to 86.2, according to the National Housing Survey report for May 2017. This drop is due to decreases in three categories being larger on-net

Chicago is the sixth most walkable city in the U.S., according to Walk Score’s 2017 Report. The report, released in May, only considers cities with populations over 300,000 and factors distance from amenities, density of population, block length and pedestrian

Home prices continue to rise on both a year-over-year and monthly basis, and will continue to do so through the next year, according to CoreLogic’s latest report. CoreLogic’s April Home Price Index (HPI) found that home prices have increased