Not a Stretch: Retirement Savings, Living Expenses & Cheap Housing
Looking to stretch your retirement savings? If you're willing to live frugally and in a city with inexpensive housing, you may be able to retire at age 40.
Market Trends
Q3 2015 Negative Equity: Still Coming Down, Still Messing Things Up
The U.S. negative equity rate – the share of mortgaged homeowners that are underwater, owing more on their home than it is worth – fell to 13.4 percent in the third quarter, from 14.4 percent in Q2 and 16.9 percent a year ago. The national negative equity rate has fallen or stayed flat for 14 straight quarters after peaking in the first quarter of 2012 at 31.4 percent
Holiday Home Shopping: Finding the Housing Market That Matches Your Shopping Style
Gotta have the latest and greatest, no matter the cost? Glued to lightning deals? Zillow ranks the best markets for holiday home shopping based on your shopping style.
The 5 Markets Most Likely to Be Impacted by New 2016 Conforming Loan Limits
New 2016 conforming loan limits won't affect a majority of U.S. homes. But 61,000 homes, mostly clustered around 5 large markets, could be impacted.
Revisiting Mortgage Lending in Detroit: New Insights From HMDA
Detroit’s housing market is – slowly, seemingly perpetually – “getting there,” recovering in fits and starts and unevenly throughout the roughly 150-square-mile city that is home to more than 600,000 residents.
October Market Reports: Home Value Growth Accelerates, While Rent Growth Slows
As the U.S. housing market enters the fourth quarter of 2015, the dominant trends from the first quarter have reversed. Annual home value appreciation, previously slowing down, has accelerated; while growth in rents, previously accelerating, has begun to slow down.
Rising Rents Impact Rental Affordability & Pose Challenges to Homeownership, Too
Comparatively low monthly mortgage payments, coupled with increasingly expensive rents, continue to make homeownership a relative bargain to millennials and other potential home buyers. But there’s a catch.
The Evolving First-Time Homebuyer
The role of first-time homebuyers in the real estate market has remained remarkably constant – and hugely important – over the years. But while the role of first-time buyers hasn’t changed, the defining characteristics of first-time buyers, and what they’re looking for in a first home, is constantly evolving.
Small Victories: Mortgage Denials for Blacks, Hispanics Less Frequent in 2014
Denial rates for primary mortgage applications were down across the board last year compared to 2013, particularly for black and Hispanic borrowers, according to the most recent data released under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).
Where to Avoid Freddy This Halloween (Krueger, That Is, Not Mac…)
Think your dreams (or nightmares) are safe from the murderous Freddy Krueger, just because you don’t live in the fictional town of Springwood, Ohio? Think again. There are 92,225 homes inauspiciously located on one of the 2,376 Elm Streets nationwide.
