A home buyer making the median income will need to put down nearly $127,750, or 35.4%, to afford a typical U.S. home valued at about $360,000, according to a data analysis from Zillow (NASDAQ:Z, ZG). In some markets, the costs are more burdensome. For example, a...
Mortgage application activity inched up last week, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, was up by 0.9% on a seasonally adjusted basis week-over-week, while the...
A total of 67,817 single-family homes and condominiums were flipped in the first quarter, according to new data from ATTOM. This represents 8.7% of the quarter’s home sales, or one of every 12 transactions. The first quarter’s activity was up from 7.7% of all home...
Single‐family housing starts in May were at a rate of 982,000, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 5.2% below the revised April figure of 1.03 million. Privately‐owned housing starts in May...
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes reached its lowest reading since December 2023, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). For June, the HMI dropped two points from...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered three reverse mortgage servicing companies to cease operating in their industry, citing what the regulator described as “illegal activities that harmed older homeowners and caused them to fear losing their...
