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30-year fixed mortgage rates still ‘keeping some people away’ from buying a house: Realtor
Source: Yahoo! News --- Kinloch Partners Co-Founder and CEO Bruce McNeilage joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the continued impact of mortgage rates on homebuying trends, housing concessions, and rising housing markets to watch in 2023. Video Transcript [AUDIO LOGO]...
Supercore Inflation Excludes Food, Energy And Housing
Source: Forbes --- Key takeaways Supercore inflation purposefully ignores highly volatile areas of the economy, like housing, food and energy, to give a clearer picture of inflation Food inflation increased 10.4% year-over-year in December, while energy inflation...
Auto, real estate businesses targeted by Facebook Marketplace change to online listings
Source: Springfield News-Leader --- Brad Sims is the owner of S&A Motorsports, a used auto dealership in Springfield. He sells between 10 to 15 vehicles a month, with the majority of his sales coming from listings he makes on Facebook Marketplace. Sims said as a...
Starter Home Prices Are Soaring and Luxury Is in a Slump—What’s Going On?
Source: Realtor.com --- For those navigating America’s residential real estate market, it’s lately felt a bit like an out-of-control cargo train, ever threatening to veer off the tracks—stomach-churning price accelerations followed by interest rate hikes slamming the...
UWM Enhances TRAC Program Giving Loan Officers Increased Flexibility
PONTIAC, January 25, 2023 – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the #1 overall lender in America, announced it has enhanced its TRAC program, initially launched in October 2022, to provide loan officers more speed, options and flexibility within the title and closing...
Market confidence rising among home builders
Source: Bankrate --- Confidence in the housing market is still fairly low among U.S. home builders, but it’s on the rise. According to the most recent National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, released January 18, builder confidence...

















