For Week Ending December 21, 2024 New-home purchases accounted for 15% of home sales over the past year, the highest share since 2007, while existing-home purchases accounted for 85%, according to a recent report from the National Association of REALTORS®. … Continue reading →

For Week Ending December 14, 2024 For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. real median gross cost of renting—rent, plus the average monthly cost of utilities and fuel, adjusted for inflation—grew faster than median home values on an … Continue reading →

For Week Ending December 7, 2024 The Federal Housing Finance Agency recently announced the conforming loan limits for one-unit properties with mortgages acquired by Fannie Mar and Freddie Mac will be $806,500 in 2025, an increase of $39,950 (5.2%) from … Continue reading →

For Week Ending November 30, 2024 The majority of new single-family housing starts in 2023 were built on slab foundations, according to the National Association of Home Builders’ analysis of the Survey of Construction (SOC), with 72.4% of new homes … Continue reading →

For Week Ending November 23, 2024 U.S. homeowners with a mortgage have seen their equity increase by a total of $1.3 trillion since the second quarter of 2023, an 8% increase year-over-year, according to CoreLogic’s Q2 2024 Homeowner Equity Insights … Continue reading →