by RealtyBizNews | Jul 14, 2021 | Fannie Mae, Featured News, home ownership, homeowners, housing bubble, housing completions, housing market, housing starts, interest rates, market bubble, purchasing sentiment, real estate market, Real Estate News
Buying a home right now is probably not the best idea. Five thousand real estate agents just clicked off of their web browsers, I know, but 64% of potential home buyers agree with me. Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index for June reveals the big “turn off”...
by RealtyBizNews | Feb 25, 2021 | homeowners, Press Release, Real Estate News
As the COVID-19 pandemic forces millions of Americans to quarantine and spend additional time indoors, many are making improvements to their homes and becoming increasingly comfortable securing financing options for these projects online. Discover Home Loans surveyed...
by RealtyBizNews | Sep 24, 2020 | financial assistance, financial crisis, homeowners, Mortgage, mortgage forbearance, pandemic, Real Estate News
Research shows that a little over a million homeowners who are at least 30 days past due on their mortgage payments haven’t entered into a mortgage forbearance program or engaged with their lender about some other form of assistance. Forbearance agreement papers with...
by RealtyBizNews | Jul 24, 2020 | Home Buying, homeowners, homeownership, Pandemic savings, Real Estate News, Rep. Sean Maloney
Rep. Sean Maloney, D-N.Y., proposed a new bill this week to the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow first-time home buyers to withdraw funds, tax-free, from their retirement accounts under the umbrella of coronavirus-related distributions. The funds could...
by RealtyBizNews | Apr 1, 2020 | financial assistance, foreclosure relief, foreclosures, Freddie Mac, homeowners, mortgage aid, Real Estate News, scam
Scammers are reportedly targeting homeowners with fake offers of financial aid at a time when many are struggling to pay their mortgages due to the coronavirus outbreak. In one example, Freddie Mac last week warned of a new scam that saw borrowers receive fake calls...
by RealtyBizNews | Dec 19, 2019 | Gen Z, Home Buying, homeowners, homeownership, millennials, Real Estate News
The oldest Millennials, who will turn 40 in 2020, have lived through a turbulent decade of housing marked first by the initial recovery from the Great Recession, then the extraordinary home value growth of recent years. Due in large part to a variety of affordability...