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
Leading indicators point to a May pick-up in home sales
May 10, 2019Mortgage credit availability is the highest ever recorded for the spring housing market. Fixed rate for home loans are near 4% and wages are up. Hmmmm. What can that mean for the spring selling season? Unless Americans don’t want to own houses anymore – and that hasn’t happened yet – it means this month’s data should look pretty good.
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New study shows NIMBYism is the biggest multifamily construction barrier
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HUD plan to end public housing aid for undocumented immigrants could lead to evictions of 55,000 children
May 10, 2019 -
Home inventory was flat in Q1 as listings lingered on market
May 10, 2019 -
Zumper: Here are the amenities that renters want the most
May 09, 2019 -
BB&T and SunTrust invest $10 million in Washington, D.C.’s affordable housing
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HouseCanary hires tech exec as president and COO
May 09, 2019 -
Real estate startups have raised $1.9 billion in 2019
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Fresh off expanding into mortgages, Reali raises millions to continue growing
May 09, 2019 -
Sale-leaseback company EasyKnock announces $215 million capital raise, launches new product for home shoppers
May 09, 2019 -
Salesforce invests in Blend as startup shaves weeks off mortgage process
May 08, 2019 -
Mortgage Tech Rundown: Calyx Software, LoanScorecard, ComplianceEase, more
May 08, 2019