Realtors Have Determined the Best Day to List a Property
When it comes down to it, the real estate market—like any market—is a sort of sociological entity: a combination of [...]
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Cities Where Real Estate Taxes are Highest
One concern many potential homebuyers have when deciding to get into the home market is the costs above and beyond [...]
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A Way Forward for High DTI Consumers
The GSE Patch, created by design to smooth access to mortgages for individuals with higher Debt-to-Income (DTI) ratios than average [...]
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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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