The Orange County Register reports that although home prices in California may be stabilizing, the Golden State faces a “severe housing crisis.” According to the report, just 30% ...
Read More »Amazon’s Impact on Virginia’s Housing Market
Amazon’s HQ2 has caused a housing boom in Virginia, as the two closest cities to the Crystal City-headquarters—Alexandria and Arlington—are the two most competitive markets in the nation, ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Studying Existing-Home Sales Across the Nation
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) will look to see if existing-home sales rebounded from a 1.7% drop in June, as the NAR will release its latest existing-home ...
Read More »HUD Proposes Amendments to Disparate Impact Rule
The Department of Housing and Urban Development aims to align the current Disparate Impact Rule with a Supreme Court ruling and also address the role of technology through the amendment.
Read More »Mixed Results for Single-Family Housing Starts, Building Permits
The results of July’s Census Bureau New Residential Construction Survey was a mixed bag. Building permits in July grew month-over-month by 8.4% to 1.33 million, and 1.5% annually. ...
Read More »Are Fannie and Freddie Prepared for Adverse Conditions?
FHFA, released the results of the stress tests for the two GSEs as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Here’s what the tests revealed about the creditworthiness of the enterprises.
Read More »The Slowing Rate of Home-Value Growth
Zillow’s July Real Estate Market Report shows that home values for the month grew 5.2% annually to an average of $229,000—the seventh-consecutive month with declining appreciation. July 2019 ...
Read More »What’s Next Following Wednesday’s Economic Crash?
The stock market did its best to recover Thursday after falling off the cliff on Wednesday, sending Wall Street into panic as the 10-year and 2-year Treasury yield ...
Read More »Eye on the Industry: Updates on New Hires, Acquisitions
The Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco has promoted Greg Ward to EVP and Chief Risk Officer and promoted Arlene Coyle ...
Read More »Affordability, Technology, and the Future
Editor’s note: This feature originally appeared in the August issue of MReport, out now. Danny Gardner leads Freddie Mac’s Single-Family Affordable Lending and Access to Credit business. In ...
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