Source: The Seattle Times — The new year will bring Seattle a new housing market, one without the runaway prices and jaw-dropping bidding wars, yet still difficult for anyone but the region’s wealthiest shoppers. Economists say home prices are likely to fall or...
Source: TB&P — The housing market has seen extreme highs and lows this year. Fluctuating home prices and mortgage rates are primarily attributed to inflation, fears of a recession, and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s economic policy. Ever-changing factors make...
Source: AS — The past few years have seen great upheaval in the United States’ housing market, a period of instability sparked by the covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. At first the economic shutdown left interest rates, and therefore mortgage rates, on the...
Source: Deseret News — Imagine earning over $100,000 a year and being qualified to buy a half-million-dollar home — but still not being able to swing it. In 2022, that was Joseph Branca’s reality, along with plenty of other Utahns who wanted to join the mad...
Source: El Paso Inc. — The El Paso area is among the U.S. housing markets expected to grow the most in 2023, according to a national housing forecast. With mortgage rates and home prices rising and lending standards tight, many markets have slowed and some are...
Source: Insider — With the new year is another chance to make housing more affordable for all. Right now, it’s harder than ever to buy a home. In 2022, an astronomical rise in mortgage rates coupled with already steep home prices pushed many out of the...