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...
Switzerland’s central bank enacted its second interest rate cut of the year while the Bank of England opted to hold rates at their current level. The Swiss National Bank slashed its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%. In March, Switzerland became the first...
Roughly half of Americans are struggling to remain where they are financially, according to a new nationwide survey published by Monmouth University’s Polling Institute. The poll found 46% of respondents complaining they were having difficulty maintaining financial...
California Regional MLS (CRMLS) announced it reached an agreement to enable reciprocal access between the CRMLS Matrix MLS system and BeachesMLS, the MLS serving South Florida. The reciprocal access between systems will be made available to users of both MLSs...
Senate Approves 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
