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Source: Keeping Current Matters --- If you were thinking about buying a home this year, but already pressed pause on your plans due to rising home prices and increasing mortgage rates, there’s something you should consider. According to the latest report from ATTOM...

Source: The World Property Journal--- According to the National Association of Realtors, pending home sales fell in December 2021, denoting two straight months of declines. All four major U.S. regions posted both month-over-month and year-over-year drops in contract...

Source: CNBC --- The nation’s housing market has never been this tight, which is frustrating enough for house hunters, but now they have another problem. Mortgage rates, which have hovered around record lows since the start of the Covid pandemic, are now rising. It’s...

Source: The World Property Journal --- According to national property broker Redfin, average monthly listed rents in the U.S. increased 14.1% year over year to $1,877 in December 2021. This was the largest annual jump since at least February 2019--the earliest month...

Source: CNBC --- Even as the housing market entered its traditionally slower season in November, home prices showed big gains from a year ago. Prices rose 18.8% year over year on the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index. Yet that was a slower rate...

Source: yahoo!finance --- If you're a homebuyer hoping for a break on home sale prices amid rising mortgage rates, it's likely not happening this year, or next.  Aside from record-low inventory, a big culprit for even higher home prices points to inflation. "It'll...

Source: Redfin News --- One in 10 homebuyers and sellers say climate-related risks—hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, extreme temperatures and/or rising sea levels—are the primary reason for their move, and 39% say they’re a contributing factor.  That’s according to a...