Year-over-year home price gains inched down in July to 4.3%, according to new data from CoreLogic. This was below June’s 4.7% year-over-year reading and came in below 5% for the third consecutive month. No states posted annual home price declines. The states with the...
Rohit Chopra is director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This article is adapted and edited from a speech delivered yesterday at the National Housing Conference in Washington, DC. While we often focus on homeownership as a vehicle for accumulating...
A 208-unit apartment tower in Clearwater, Florida, that operated for 50 years as an affordable senior living complex before being turned into market rate housing that displaced its financially vulnerable residents is being transitioned into an affordable housing...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is now offering an online risk analysis tool designed to offer geographic estimates for physical risks from natural disasters along with nationwide data on housing and the mortgage market. The new Mortgage Loan and Natural...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: The other day, I saw a headline from a Connecticut newspaper that declared: “TikTok star Nara Smith, model Lucky Blue Smith go house hunting in CT.” And my reaction to the headline was: “Who and who?” We don’t do a great deal of celebrity-related...
The commission changes were expected to occur with the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) historic settlement have not come to pass in many markets, according to a new report by Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN). The new report, which is based on interviews with dozens...
