What Is Gentrification – and Why Is It Good or Bad?
It means a neighborhood is changing from low-income to trendy. It’s good for early buyers, but it’s bad for lower-income owners who can no longer afford to live there.
It means a neighborhood is changing from low-income to trendy. It’s good for early buyers, but it’s bad for lower-income owners who can no longer afford to live there.
While overall home sales show signs of cooling as prices rise and buyers step back, NAR Economist Yun doesn’t see that reflected in sales of vacation homes.
Here’s one: “Sorry,” often used as “Sorry to bother you, but …” If you often offer an unnecessary apology, it makes you sound somewhat timid.
Low interest rates and a severe shortage of homes for sale are contributing to rising costs for renters and would-be homebuyers, even as more rental homes are sold.
Homeowners have read bidding-war stories and heard about homes selling for thousands of dollars more than asking price. Now they’re becoming sellers and think they can overprice their property, but the market is seeing more price reductions – 9.4% in Aug., says Zillow, up from 8.6% in July.
If Republicans and Democrats fail to reach agreement by Sept. 30, some services – such as NFIP, IRS and more – could slowly shut down, possibly delaying transactions.
Couples may happily disagree in life, but when they have to share a home the differences can come to the forefront. The top reason for a fight? A home’s price.
U.S. Commerce: Sales of new homes last month were up 1.5%, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 740,000 – more than economists expected.
Today’s market isn’t like the boom-bust cycle leading up to the Great Recession: Tough loan standards are the norm, plus many factors have kept housing supply low.
Called Argus, the risk management platform’s artificial intelligence capabilities should reduce HUD’s time spent manually monitoring program grantees by over 75%.