Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes during July posted a one-point uptick to 56 in the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) Housing Market Index (HMI). This marked the seventh consecutive month of rising...
WalletHub has taken another look at the U.S. housing market, this time with the newly published 2023 edition of the Best & Worst Cities for First-Time Home Buyers. For this study, WalletHub analyzed 300 cities using 22 key metrics ranging from housing...
Country music star Luke Bryan has no problems getting audiences into his shows, but he seems to be stymied getting interest in his mansion in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Realtor.com reported the award-winning singer/songwriter first listed his 4,645-square-foot Gulf...
Americans are facing an increasing level of rejection on their loan applications, according to data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In the New York Fed’s latest Survey of Consumer Expectations, the overall rejection rate for credit applicants was...
Angelo Mozilo, the former chairman and chief executive of Countrywide Financial who received widespread criticism for his role in the subprime mortgage meltdown, died at the age of 84. “It is with great sadness that the family of Angelo Robert Mozilo announces his...
On July 30, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), which established the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). One provision of that act gave the FHFA authority to place its regulated entities into conservatorship...