Existing home sales fell for the seventh straight month in August as rising interest rates continued to sideline potential home buyers, and prices are finally starting to fall from record highs as experts project that the next few months could help ease the housing sector’s long-standing affordability crisis. Existing home sales ticked down 0.4% from […]
As home prices soared in recent years, homeowners enjoyed record levels of tappable home equity, which is the amount of money a homeowner can borrow against while keeping a 20% equity stake. But that’s all changing as home prices begin to fall, with July seeing the largest decline in home prices since 2011, according to […]
Another month, another explosive rise in home prices. May’s median annual housing price rose 23.6%, a new monthly record. Buyers are still buying, helped by low interest and mortgage rates. But since housing construction hasn’t kept pace with demand and economic growth, it will take more housing production to reduce long-term pressure on prices. The buying pressure in housing […]