What’s Happening in Home Price Appreciation?
Home price appreciation is a fraught topic these days. The way home prices are going—the numbers hold some market watchers [...]
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The Best Small Towns for Retirees
There is a rather unfortunate tendency among older Americans to seek out the cheapest locations for themselves to retire, given [...]
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Generation Xers are Keeping Their Larger Houses
The sociological phenomenon of difference among generations continues to have a pronounced effect on the way these large groups of [...]
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A Look at Buyer’s Market Mortgage Volume
There’s increasing accord among professionals in the residential real estate market that we have passed through the decidedly seller-beneficial portion [...]
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The Strange Inverse Relationship Between Rising Rates and Refinance Numbers in January
Common sense would seem to dictate something simple: when rates fall, so the number of people looking to refinance their [...]
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Modular Construction Gains Steam
As any reader of this blog will be aware, there has been a lot of attention paid latelyto how the [...]
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What is the Ability to Repay and Qualified Mortgage Rule (QM) Patch?
When Congress modified the Truth in Lending Act (via section 1402 of Dodd-Frank) as a response to the 2008 housing [...]
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Why Some Think Builders Aren’t Improving Single-Family Housing Availability
In our last post we made brief mention of an early 2019 rise in the confidence of builders, as reflected [...]
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Increasing Builder Confidence
Last year many—including us—wrote about the strange trend in the construction industry that, despite rises in employment, wages, and overall [...]
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The Lowdown on Tax Lien Investing
When a homeowner owes back taxes on a property, the governmental authority to which those taxes are owed can place [...]
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The Latest on How the CFPB Plans to Regulate
In May 2018, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA) was signed into law, in an effort [...]
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How February’s Low Jobs Report Affected the Housing Market
February 2019 saw a somewhat alarming decrease in the number of new jobs added to the economy—a mere 20,000, which [...]
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