Mortgage

For decades, home appraisals have arrived as dense, narrative-heavy documents filled with jargon that most buyers skim before handing back to their lender. A sweeping data-standards overhaul...

Housing affordability is the standard explanation for rising rental delinquency, and it is accurate but incomplete. Stagnant wages and rising housing costs are squeezing tenants, but accordi...

The towns wedged between Newark and Jersey City – Kearny, North Arlington, Harrison, Belleville, don’t generate the same national attention as their larger neighbors. But for buyers ...

Homebuyers in the western Houston suburbs are seeing more inventory than they’ve had in years, but their budgets aren’t stretching as far as they once did. With resale homes in t...

Philadelphia’s residential market has entered a period where the margin for error on listing price has narrowed considerably. Properties priced at market value and presented well are s...

In a metro area long defined by the stability of federal employment, the Washington, D.C. real estate market is splitting along lines that track closely with buyer mobility. Single-family ho...

Philadelphia’s residential market has long been known for its relative price stability, modest gains in good years, modest declines in bad ones. But that evenness is masking a widening...

In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according ...

For most of the past decade, buyers in New York City’s outer boroughs focused first on finding a home they could afford, then figured out how to pay for it. In Queens, that sequence is...

Most housing developers treat infrastructure as a line item. For the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona, the second-largest land-based tribe in the United States, with a reserva...

For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s th...

In northern Bergen County, New Jersey, two nearly identical homes on the same street can sell months apart – one in a bidding war within a week, the other lingering with price reductions. ...

A growing acquisition strategy among small real estate investors in Texas involves taking over someone else’s mortgage payment without ever assuming the loan itself. It is called a ...

For years, the national conversation about real estate migration has centered on Sun Belt destinations. A different pattern is forming in western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh’s combination...

Chicago’s south suburban housing market presents an unusual tension: demand remains steady, appreciation runs between 3 and 5 percent annually, and inventory stays tight across price p...