A weekend topic starting with KERA. "If you don’t make more than $100,000 per year, you can’t afford to buy a median-priced home in three of Texas’ largest metro areas: Dallas-Fort Worth, greater Houston, and the Austin area. That’s one…
A report from Lew Sichelman. "If you have a fixed-rate mortgage, your payments will always stay the same, right? Wrong. Maybe you’ve heard the term PITI, which stands for the main components of a typical mortgage payment: principal, interest, taxes…
A report from the Naples Daily News Florida. "A year-end report by the Naples Area Board of Realtors that tracks resales in Collier County, excluding Marco Island, tells a big part of the story. 'Rapid market advancement stopped in early…
A report from Motley Fool. "By mid-2022, when my good friend had started to look for a house to buy, mortgage rates were already much higher. Not only did she have cash in a savings account to put toward a…
A report from Community Impact in Texas. "The market presents a unique challenge to agents, buyers, sellers, title agents and anyone involved in real estate, said Shelby Buehler, an agent with The Buehler Group in Flower Mound and Lewisville. Buehler…
A report from New Hampshire Public Radio. "In New Hampshire, the rate of foreclosure filings on properties has risen 149.72 percent from mid-year 2021 to mid-year 2023, according to ATTOM. Most of that increase has happened in the last year.…
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A report from Mansion Global. "Q: For those who don’t have context, where was the Greenwich market before the pandemic began in March 2020? Greenwich, Connecticut-based developer Steve Schacter: The market was fairly down, especially the high-end part of the…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Nearly a quarter of Denver-area residents looking for a home on Redfin are conducting their searches outside the metro area. That probably would be just another number, except that metro Denver’s housing…