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
Wells Fargo earnings top expectations weeks after CEO departs
Apr 12, 2019Wells Fargo, the biggest U.S. bank originator of mortgages, had its best first quarter in five years without much help from its home-loan business. Look for that to change next quarter, based on the mortgage pipeline Wells Fargo reported. The San Francisco bank said it had $32 billion of unclosed first-lien mortgages that will go on its books in the current quarter, compared with $24 billion it reported for the same period a year earlier.
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Boston Globe: A battle is brewing in Beantown to bring back rent control
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Forecast: These will be the housing market’s strongest and weakest metros
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These two catalysts could spark a surge in home equity use
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Hispanics now lead the charge in U.S. household growth
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Caliber Home Loans fined for allegedly steering struggling homeowners into risky mortgage modifications
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Zillow: This is the nation’s typical home seller
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Fed minutes show “patience” may wear thin by end of year
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First-time homebuyers are not being shut out of the housing market
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NAR’s Yun says rates will “bifurcate” spring housing market
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There haven’t been this many house flippers since before the housing bubble burst
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More Americans are moving to these affordable inland markets
Apr 09, 2019