Category: Top National News

Wall Street Journal, Jan. 2, 2024–Will ParkerThe apartment rental market finally stopped clobbering tenants with big price increases in 2023. That trend will likely continue in the new year, even …

National Mortgage Professional, Jan. 2, 2024–Lew SichelmanIf you can survive what is lining up as one miserable year for the mortgage market, there’s a pot of gold waiting at the …

Washington Post, January 1, 2024–Julian Mark and Eli TanMore than a fifth of adult millennials chose to live rent-free before buying their own houses, according to real estate data.Click here …

The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 2023-Gwynn GuilfordATLANTA—Before the pandemic, Andrew Levy described himself as a filmmaker, producing marketing videos for Fortune 500 companies.Click here for more (subscription)

The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 1, 2024-Peter GrantFrom 2019 to 2022, a new type of real-estate fund became one of the hottest fundraising juggernauts on Wall Street by giving individual …

The New York Times, Jan. 1, 2024-Martha C. WhiteJohn Matheson, a home inspector in Alameda, Calif., kept busy during the pandemic when the housing market was red hot. But as …

Reuters, Dec. 28, 2023The interest rate on the most common type of U.S. home loan fell for a ninth straight week this week to close out the year at their …

HousingWire, Jan. 1, 2024-Chris ClowAffordability remains a critical issue in virtually all conversations about housing, and few people understand that reality better than leading housing and mortgage industry advocacy groups.Click …

Commercial Observer, Dec. 29, 2023–Andrew CoenChristmas came early for the commercial real estate industry on Dec. 13. That’s when the Federal Reserve signaled its hawkish strategy of fighting inflation with …

HousingWire, December 28, 2023–Connie KimIn his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate’s managing director and a …