Real Estate
Real estate news provides vital information to mortgage and housing industry professionals, and HousingWire’s real estate news coverage is focused on the top and timely information that agents, teams and brokerages need to know. Whether it’s news about further declines in housing inventory, insight into builder pace, or updates on housing market data like home sales and home prices, HousingWire offers you the insight you need into the biggest home trends and changes in real estate.
Right now, there are numerous factors driving the real estate news cycle, not the least of which is fluctuating interest rates. Mortgage rates rose rapidly throughout 2022, which has had a massive impact on the housing market across the board — and directly affected the price and demand of real estate, home prices, and government policies related to tax incentives, deductions, and subsidies that can boost or hinder demand.
And, while it appears that the Federal Reserve may be prepared to slow the uptick in the Fed rate, it’s likely that rates will continue to have an impact on the industry in some form throughout some or all of 2023. To stay on top of the latest real estate news, industry professionals turn to HousingWire’s real estate news coverage, where they can learn about policy that is impacting lender and consumer activity, economic and market trends that are guiding strategy and opportunities for real estate and mortgage professionals, and find out about best practices being incorporated by leading industry professionals and agencies.
Latest Posts
Second quarter GDP revised down to 2%, half the pace of a year ago
Aug 29, 2019Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 2% in the second quarter, compared with a gain of 3.1% in the first quarter, according to the second estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Today’s number is based on more complete source data than was available for the advance numbers issued last month when GDP was estimated at 2.1%.
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ATTOM: Opportunity Zones have median home prices below national level
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This is how home shoppers feel about the possible recession
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Fintech startup Knox Financial names CFO, plans to launch in more markets
Aug 28, 2019 -
LendingTree: Number of workers per household is growing as Americans combat rising home prices
Aug 28, 2019 -
Homeowner “tappable equity” reaches an all-time high of $6.3 trillion
Aug 28, 2019 -
First American says consumer house-buying power is highest its been in nearly two decades
Aug 28, 2019 -
How rate sensitive are borrowers? Slight uptick in interest rates leads to decline in mortgage applications
Aug 28, 2019 -
Americans are brimming with confidence, despite trade wars and recession signs
Aug 27, 2019