Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia is predicting the state legislature will not follow Gov. Ron DeSantis’ call to abolish homestead property taxes. In an interview with WINK News, Ingoglia acknowledged that DeSantis has yet to propose a plan on...
Finance of America Reverse LLC has unveiled HomeSafe Second Line of Credit, which is being promoted as the “industry’s first second-lien reverse mortgage line of credit.” According to the Plano, Texas-based company, the product enables homeowners age 55 and older to...
Mortgage application activity slowed during the week ending March 27 amid a steep decline in refinancing, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, fell by 10.4% on...
The Georgia Senate has passed a bill that will reduce homeowner property taxes by creating a new sales tax. WABE reports the Senate’s measure was amended on House Bill 1116, which proposed a cap on property tax valuation increases. The Senate’s proposal creates...
Apartment rents inched up slightly in March with the national average rising to $1,723, a 0.2% uptick from February’s upwardly revised level of $1,719. According to Apartments.com, an online marketplace of CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), February marked the fourth...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Last week, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) number-crunched data from the American Community Survey and came up with a remarkable result: Roughly half of the nation’s housing stock was built in the 1980s and earlier, with slightly...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of April 27-May 1
