Commentary on the latest housing market news, with a focus on home prices, buying and selling conditions, and if another housing crisis is right around the corner. Also helpful home seller and home buyer tips.
The Urban Institute released its monthly chartbook today, which provides tons of data about the mortgage market. As I scanned through it, I came across… Read More »Can We Use These Charts to Predict the Next Housing Crisis?
Should we worry? Home sellers are hitting it out of the park, a potentially ominous sign we’ve gotten a little too house happy again, this… Read More »Home Sellers Seeing Biggest Price Gains Since 2007
Another one of those wonky Federal Reserve papers was released last week, which made the claim that government-backed mortgage insurance promoted a faster recovery post… Read More »Should You Buy a Home Where the FHA Loan Share Is High?
It’s that time of the year again, when presidential hopefuls lay out their plans to save America and get the nation back on its feet.… Read More »Bernie Sanders Wants Every Homeowner to Get the Mortgage Interest Deduction
How to Boost Your Home’s Value If you’re thinking about listing your home in the coming months (or this month), you might be wondering what… Read More »You Can Sell Your Home for More If It Looks Like a Barn
What Does a Plateau Look Like? A plateau is a tabletop rock formation With a long, flat uppermost point If home prices are said to… Read More »Trulia Chief Economist: May Be Reaching Housing Plateau, Not a Bubble
How Real Estate Once Was Buying and selling real estate used to be really hard And very time consuming I remember driving around with a… Read More »Now You Can Trade Your House In for a New One Like a Car Lease
Finding That Perfect Location In my quest to find the perfect home location, as opposed to one poorly located, I was just given a new… Read More »Buy a House Close to Target, Not Walmart
A previous study from Redfin found that winter was the best time to sell a home, which seemed a bit unconventional. Zillow is saying it’s… Read More »Zillow Says Early May Is Now the Best Time to Sell a Home
179,778 Properties Flipped in 2015 Is it time to worry? Home prices are surging, affordability is becoming a concern, and home flippers are back out… Read More »Home Flippers in 2015 Were the Most Active Since 2007
