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Existing home sales jumped nearly 12% last month but remain a bit below the February 2018 total. Home prices rose year over year for the 84th consecutive month.
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Mortgage loan rates dipped again last week leading to an increase in new mortgage loan applications.
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The National Association of Home Builders confidence index was unchanged this month, holding steady at 62 after crawling out of a deep hole in December.
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Several of America’s largest cities today were also the largest cities in the United States before it became the United States in 1789. However, a town that barely qualifies as a city in 2019 was...
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Sales of new homes dropped by 4% year over year in January and 7% compared to December. Unusually cold weather, a partial government shutdown, and substantial upward revision in December's total all...
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Applications for new mortgage loans rose last week as interest rates dipped. Mortgage interest rates reached a 14-month low on Tuesday.
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U.S. home prices rose more than 4% in January according to CoreLogic's latest Home Price Insights monthly report.
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Community colleges are two-year education institutions meant to provide affordable degrees for people who have usually graduated high school but have not enrolled in schools which can give them a...
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Data for U.S. housing starts in January were released Friday showing sharp jumps in both total starts and starts on single-family home construction. New permits issued slipped slightly.
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Some 351,000 mortgages rose enough last year to regain positive equity status. The total value of U.S. mortgaged properties rose by $678,000, raising the seven-year gain in home value to $5.5...
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Mortgage loan rates rose last week on all types of loans tracked by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Average loan sizes also rose as high-end and move-up buyers took a larger share of the housing...
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Home sales rose month over month in December and were up more than 2% year over year for the month. The for-sale inventory was also higher and, alas, so were prices.
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Detroit is still plagued by blighted neighborhoods, a sky-high poverty rate, and crime infested areas. That is among the reasons some houses in the city sell for well below the national average, and...
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Housing price increases continue to moderate according to the latest data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller house price index. In eight of the 20 largest U.S. cities, year-over-year price...
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Home prices have recently been rising at a slower pace than they were a year ago which is good news for potential buyers. Here's how much a buyer needs to earn in order to afford a home in the 50...
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