The National Association of Realtors’ latest Pending Home Sales Index showed transactions sliding by 31% year-over-year. Contract signings also pulled back in all four major U.S. regions, with inflated mortgage [...]

“The above analysis clearly indicates a property in flood zones sells for less and appreciates slower over time than a similar property outside flood zones, given everything else is equal, [...]

“The pandemic-driven wave of relocation to suburbs and rural areas—which tend to lean more conservative than city centers—made those toss-up places more diverse,” said Taylor Marr, Redfin’s Deputy Chief Economist. [...]

Once finalized, the combined entity will operate nearly 400 branches across nine states, and its mortgage division will operate nationally through 81 retail lending offices in 26 states, with a [...]

The number of zombie properties inched upward in Q4, and though they remain a small portion of the market at just one in every 13,000 residential properties nationwide, those numbers [...]

HUD and the Census Bureau reported that single-family home sales fell month-over-month in September, with the nation’s supply of homes for sale rising by 1.1 months to 9.2, above the [...]

“The share of U.S. borrowers who are six months or more late on their mortgage payments fell to a two-year low in August and was less than one-third of the [...]

A new document outlines a list of proposals and alternatives under consideration for the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s data rights rulemaking—strengthening consumers’ access and rights to their financial data—through updates [...]

A new Urban Institute report argues that the normalization of forbearances for life occurrences like job loss could keep thousands out of the foreclosure process every year. Source: DS News