Buyers are about to have an easier time scoring a mortgage to purchase a condo. A new policy announced this week should significantly expand the number of individual condo units as well as condo developments eligible for Federal Housing Administration financing. The government-backed mortgages are popular with first-time buyers because they require as little as 3.5% […]
Investors Are Buying More of the U.S. Housing Market Than Ever Before
The share of investor purchases of U.S. homes have climbed to an all-time high, a sign that rising home prices have done little to dampen demand for flipping homes or turning them into single-family rentals. Big private-equity firms, real-estate speculators and others that buy properties comprised more than 11% of U.S. home purchasers in 2018, […]
The Housing Slowdown May Be Ending: What Buyers, Sellers Need to Know
The much discussed—and, in some quarters, much feared—housing slowdown may be coming to an end. The real estate softening that began last summer, marked by a surge in homes hitting the market and fewer sales after years of crazy-high annual price growth, may show signs of reversing course by this fall, say housing experts. That’s […]
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