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Real estate, rents continue to climb as housing crunch continues
Source: AZPM --- Housing of all types has gotten pricier in Tucson since the COVID-19 pandemic. On the real estate market, home prices have gone up 50 percent in the past two years, while rents have gone up by a third. "You're seeing a lot of people who are coming in...
Biggest Winners and Losers in a Housing Market Crash, According to Experts
Source: Newsweek --- Soaring home prices, rising mortgage rates, a 40-year inflation high and other factors are fueling concerns that the U.S. housing market could crash. While some experts have doubts about whether such a crash would match the severity of 2008's...
A 3% Mortgage? Leveraging Your Stocks to Buy a Home
Source: Bloomberg --- There may be signs the overheated housing market is cooling, but many buyers still feel like it’s near-impossible to get a house without an all-cash offer, or something close to it. One way to get your hands on that amount of cash is to borrow...
The Best Tips for Finding a Home Virtually
Source: Realty Biz News --- Would you buy a home you’ve never seen in person? That’s exactly what more and more home buyers are doing, thanks to changes in the real estate industry brought on by COVID-19, and the rapid development of sophisticated technology that...
Homeownership Could Be in Reach with Down Payment Assistance Programs
Source: Keeping Current Matters --- A recent survey from Bankrate asks prospective buyers to identify the biggest obstacles in their homebuying journey. It found that 36% of those polled said saving for a down payment is one of their primary hurdles to buying a home....
Latest mortgage news: After flirting with 6%, rates retreat
Source: Bankrate --- In a reversal from the rapid rise in recent weeks, the average rate on 30-year mortgages dipped to 5.85 percent this week from 5.91 last week, according to Bankrate’s national survey of large lenders. The Federal Reserve raised...
Worst Housing Affordability” since 1991 excluding Bubble; Real House Prices and Price-to-Rent Ratio in April
Source: Calculated Risk Blog --- I’ve put together my own affordability index - since 1976 - that is similar to the FirstAm approach (more of a house price index adjusted by mortgage rates and the median household income). I used median income from the Census...
What Is a 10-Year Adjustable-Rate Mortgage?
Source: Nerdwallet --- A 10-year adjustable-rate mortgage offers a fixed rate for the first 10 years of the loan. After that, the interest rate resets every six months. Many homeowners opt to refinance or sell their property before the rate starts to change. So why...
Divorce and your mortgage: Here’s what to know
Source: Bankrate --- One of the biggest decisions divorcing couples face is what to do with the marital home. If the breakup is acrimonious, trying to agree on the house and the mortgage can be a nightmare. The options for divorcing couples depend on a number of...
After months of pickup, Case-Shiller Home Price Index finally slows in April
Source: Scotsman Guide --- The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index registered a 20.4% annualized gain in April, down slightly from the 20.6% growth in March as stubbornly growing home prices finally saw a slight deceleration. The slowdown in April...
