American real estate is still considered to be a great investment by foreign buyers – according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2025 International Transactions in US Residential Real Estate report, overseas buyers acquired $56 billion worth of existing...
The Bank of Mom and Dad is helping to keep the housing market afloat – a new survey from Redfin determined nearly one-quarter (23.8%) of young Americans who recently bought a home tapped into family money to help cover their down payment. The typical homebuyer’s down...
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has published two scathing criticisms of the housing policies espoused by President Donald Trump and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte. In the editorial “How to Increase Mortgage Defaults,” the Journal’s...
Ohio’s governor and attorney general have respectively launched property tax reform initiatives that are designed to quell the growing discontent regarding how property owners are being taxed. Gov. Mike DeWine announced the formation of his Property Tax Reform Working...
Gavin Newsom’s long-distance grant funding, a data access deal with three major MLSs, and investors hogging the homebuying market. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of July 7-11. Miss: Greetings from South...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced the state’s property tax rate has been lowered for the fifth consecutive year. The real state real property tax rate has been reduced from 10.9 cents to 10.6 cents per $100 assessed value. In a statement, Beshear said, “Right now,...
