Mortgage Rates Jump to 4-Year High
Mortgage rates are back on the move. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to its highest level since January 2014 this week, also seeing its largest […]
Month: April 2018
New Study Finds the U.S. is Millions of Units Short on Housing
The U.S. fell 7.3 million units short of meeting housing demand between 2000 to 2015, according to new research from the Up for Growth National […]
Certified Appraisals No Longer Required for Commercial Deals Under $500K
An inter-agency group of regulators from the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) […]
20 Cities Where Home Ownership Costs Less than $1,000 a Month
With higher housing costs gripping several areas of the nation, there are still plenty of bargains to be had, according to a new study by GOBankingRates. Analyzing […]
Zillow Joins the Home Flipping Business
Zillow announced that it will start flipping homes in Phoenix and Las Vegas and that it is expanding its Instant Offers service, according to a […]
Real Estate Startup SquareFoot Raises $7 million to Help with Growth Plans
Commercial real estate technology startup SquareFoot announced that it successfully raised $7 million in a series A round of financing to accelerate expansion within New York City, […]
Housing Market Shows Resilience in Face of Supply Shortages & Rising Rates
Despite concerns that rising interest rates, inventory shortages and higher home prices may dampen demand for housing, the latest figures demonstrate that the nation’s real […]
Barclays to Pay $2 Billion in Mortgage Backed Securities Settlement
Following a three-year investigation into allegations that it caused billions of dollars of losses to investors by “engaging in a fraudulent scheme” to sell residential […]