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Real Estate newsletter: The ultimate home-buying guide

Real Estate newsletter: The ultimate home-buying guide

Source: Los Angeles Times --- Welcome back to the Real Estate newsletter. We have a big one for you this week. That’s because “The Great SoCal House Hunt,” our all-encompassing, step-by-step guide to buying your first home in Southern California, has published. Not to...

March 2022 Monthly Housing Market Trends Report

March 2022 Monthly Housing Market Trends Report

Source: Realtor --- Realtor.com®’s March housing data release reveals that the one-two-punch of rising interest rates and all-time high listing prices has moderated demand for homes. A decline in the churn of listings, consistent with recent slow-downs as reported for...

Mortgages Rates Surge to Highest Since 2018

Mortgages Rates Surge to Highest Since 2018

Source: The Wall Street Journal --- ​ The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate loan jumped to 4.67%, mortgage-finance giant Freddie Mac said Thursday, marking the weekly figure’s highest reading since December 2018. The 30-year fixed rate rose from 4.42% a week ago,...

Inside the government’s feeble fight to end redlining

Inside the government’s feeble fight to end redlining

Source: Housing Wire --- Redlining is a five-alarm word in the lexicon of American racism, but it really has a quite specific definition: The denying of credit in non-white, particularly Black neighborhoods.  The federal government was for redlining before it was...

How Skyrocketing Gas Prices Affect the Real Estate Market

How Skyrocketing Gas Prices Affect the Real Estate Market

Source: The Motley Fool --- Inflation's impact on energy costs was already being felt before the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but now new sanctions restricting the exportation of fuel are exacerbating the problem and causing gas prices to soar. While it may not seem like...