The Green New Deal’s impact on home builders, an FHLB expansion to include nonbanks, and a historic church’s upcoming date with a wrecking ball. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the hits and misses for the real estate week of Nov. 6-10. Hit: DOE,...
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has called out the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for creating regulations that have negatively impacted efforts to address the production of affordable housing. In testimony delivered today before the U.S. House...
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes in October fell four points to 40 from a downwardly revised September reading, according to the Housing Market Index (HMI) data from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo...
Rising mortgage rates, rising foreclosure rates, and Bad Bunny’s rather pricey rental unit. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our hits and misses for the week of Oct. 9-13. Miss: Up, Up and Oh No. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage surged...
The leadership of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors have sent a joint letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warning that the central bank’s policy of rate hikes is creating...