The housing market’s supply-and-demand imbalance has tilted in favor of homebuyers, according to a pair of new data reports. Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN) reports there is currently an estimated 1.9 million home sellers nationwide competing for an estimated 1.5 million...
Texas homebuyers were twice as likely as buyers nationwide to purchase a newly constructed home instead of a pre-owned property, according to a data report from Texas Realtors. An analysis of Lone Star State real estate transactions between July 2023 and June 2024...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer slammed President Donald Trump’s announcement that he planned to take Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) public, claiming it would only “line the pockets of the wealthy” while jacking up mortgage costs. The...
Salt Lake City-based Arrive Home has unveiled two new iterations of its Earned Equity Program (EEP) that seeks to expand homeownership access to underserved communities. According to the company, the new EEP Pathway designed for “ITIN and certain Visa statuses...
The condo market has become so bad – pause for a “Match Game”-style response of “How bad is it?” – that nearly seven in 10 (68%) condos sold below list price in the first quarter, the lowest share in five years. Furthermore, new data from Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN) found...
Mortgage application activity fell for the second consecutive week as home prices were on the rise. The Market Composite Index, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 1.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis for the...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of Aug. 24-28
