Real Estate News & Insights
Former Fannie Mae President David Benson Returns as Senior Adviser
Pulte did not elaborate what duties Benson will be handling at Fannie Mae. Continue Reading Former Fannie Mae President David Benson Returns as Senior Adviser
$60,000 FHLBank Dallas Grant to Support Affordable Housing Initiatives in New Orleans
The PGP offers up to a 5:1 match of member contributions up to $25,000 per FHLBank Dallas member. Continue Reading $60,000 FHLBank Dallas Grant to Support Affordable Housing Initiatives in New Orleans
Treasury Adds New Weapon To Fight Money Laundering Through Real Estate Purchases
Source: CoStar --- The nation’s financial crimes regulator has issued final rules boosting U.S. efforts to prevent money laundering. The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, set new regulations and a deadline for corporations and...
Choice: A new luxury amidst the sell-off
Source: Chase --- Market update: Breaking points There has been one question for investors to consider this year: What would it take to break inflation? The hope at the beginning of the year was that a combination of interest rate hikes and natural resolution of...
Office-to-housing conversions on the rise; Dajia to sell 3 US hotels for $1.3B
Source: SP Global --- Across the U.S., cities and states are planning incentives for converting offices to homes to alleviate a housing shortage and address rising office vacancies, Axios reported. The state of California is allocating $400 million of its 2023 budget...
What The Agency’s Executives Tell Real Estate Agents to Get Through a Tough Housing Market
Source: US News --- The U.S. housing market has seen a quick slowdown in 2022 with high home prices, high inflation and volatile interest rates. Many buyers are opting out of making a purchase with low affordability, and would-be sellers prefer to stay where they are...
Real Estate Debt Becoming An Attractive Investment As Stocks Fall And Mortgage Rates Climb
Source: Yahoo Finance --- The housing market and all of the uncertainty plaguing it is undoubtedly on the minds of prospective buyers, sellers and investors. As the Federal Reserve continues to try to curb inflation through the increase in rates, its been indirectly...
Review of all things Real Estate: 2022 fall housing market predictions
Source: Village News --- After a tumultuous summer for real estate, autumn is here. As of mid-September, the benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage average is hovering a bit above 6% and skyrocketing home prices are finally starting to drop, slowly, (references below)....
Unlimited pixels, and I still can’t afford real estate in the metaverse
Source: Real Change News --- We’ve had internet bulletin boards, listservs, text websites, game environments, websites, interactive websites. Now we’re seeing metaverse real estate. I’m already completely lost and left out in the cold in the new metaverse. I’m...
The Best Real Estate Returns Come After Recessions
Source: Institutional Investor --- Amid a slow down in the economy, higher financing costs, and mounting fears of a recession, real estate values are fast declining. But the downturn is an opportunity for investors who stick with their real estate holdings — or invest...
Current National Mortgage Rates: September 28, 2022—Rates Are The Highest They’ve Been In A Year
Source: Forbes --- The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.98%, according to Bankrate.com, while the average rate on a 15-year mortgage is 6.09%. On a 30-year jumbo mortgage, the average rate is 7.02%, and the average rate on a 5/1 ARM is 5.11%. Today’s...
Almost 1,000 mortgage deals pulled as panic grips UK housing market
Source: The Guardian --- Almost 1,000 mortgage packages were pulled overnight from the British market as panic seeps into the housing market in the wake of Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget. Moneyfacts, which monitors the sector, said 935 out of 3,596 mortgage products had...
