Tag: Zillow
Real Estate May Be Cheap, But Mortgages Very Hard To Come...
America’s mortgage finance market is still recovering from its housing crisis hangover.
In normal times, homeownership is not a financial home run.
Home values over the...
The CFPB’s New Rate Tool: Should Consumers Be Concerned?
by Terri Ewing, Featured Contributor
HOLY COW, I never thought I would see so many people upset over the CFPB’s new rate tool. Honestly, I...
Zillow Prediction on Millennials Sparks Debate
For most of this year, the economic news relating to Millennials has been discouraging, ranging from an absurdly high student loan debt burden to...
Will The Zillow-Trulia Merger Bring Much Needed Innovation To A Stale...
Amazon.com began life with the ambition to be “the world’s largest bookstore”. Back in 1996, few book publishers had any idea that their “proven”...
Is the Private Mortgage-Bond Market Dead or Dormant?
It’s been nearly seven years since the market for so-called private-label mortgage bonds, or those that aren’t backed by government-related entities, dried up. For...
Zillow-Trulia Merger: Will It Change How We Buy and Sell Real...
Despite the multitude of online real estate websites, buying a home today remains stubbornly anachronistic, with dual real estate agents, proliferating fees, and reams...
Homebuying Gets a Housecleaning
There were two significant events related to the housing market yesterday. The first was Zillow Inc., the biggest U.S. real-estate website, saying it was interested...
Home Values in More Than 1,000 U.S. Cities Expected to Be...
527 Cities that Experienced Home Value Declines of 10% or More Now at or Close to Peak, According to Q1 Zillow Real Estate Market Reports; Affordability Problems Could Spread as Interest Rates Rise -U.S. home values climbed 5.7 percent year-over year…
More than Half of For-Sale Homes in Seven Major Markets are...
Buyers in Southern Calif., Bay Area, Denver, Portland & Miami May Have Trouble Finding Affordable Homes, According to Zillow; More Communities Risk Becoming Unaffordable as Mortgage Rates Rise - Home buyers making the median income in Los Angeles, San…
2014 Forecast Predicts Easier Credit Access, Lower Homeownership
Zillow expects conditions next year to be a bit friendlier to homebuyers—but that doesn’t mean we’ll necessarily see more owner-occupied housing, experts at the...
