Apr 10, 2017 | Consumer News and Advice
Incomes Need to Rise at This Pace to Stay on Track With Rents Rent raised? You’ll need a raise. According to a new analysis by Zillow, the average renter would need his or her income to grow by $168 to keep up with an expected 1 percent rise in rents over the next...
Apr 7, 2017 | Real Estate News
Real Estate Industry Calls Attention to Role of VA Appraisers The Appraisal Institute, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and other members of the real estate industry testified before a Congressional subcommittee on Capitol Hill this week in support...
Apr 6, 2017 | Real Estate News
Home Prices Keep on Upswing in February Home prices nationally kept on the upswing in February, rising 1 percent month-over-month and 7 percent year-over-year, according to CoreLogic®’s recent Home Price Index (HPI™). The HPI Forecast™ projects prices to rise...
Apr 4, 2017 | Real Estate News
Pot Ignites a Real Estate Boom Dark Green: Jurisdiction with legalized Cannabis Image Attribution: Lokal_Profil By Lokal_Profil, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2370050 Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, April 04, 2017 Areas of the...
Apr 4, 2017 | Real Estate News
Home Prices Blamed for Student Loan Defaults Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, April 04, 2017 The housing crisis may also have sparked the increase in student loan default rates, according to a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Read more:...
Mar 31, 2017 | Real Estate News
Mortgage Rates Got Cheaper This Week Daily Real Estate News | Friday, March 31, 2017 For the second consecutive week, average mortgage rates fell, lowering the borrowing costs of buyers. “The 10-year Treasury yield remained relatively flat this week,” says Sean...
Mar 30, 2017 | Real Estate News
Homeowners Don’t Want Cookie-Cutter Lawns Daily Real Estate News | Thursday, March 30, 2017 Homeowners today are focused on making changes to their front yards so they’re markedly different from their neighbors’ yards and easier to maintain, finds the 2017...
Mar 29, 2017 | Real Estate News
The Economy’s Thorn: Low Ownership Rates Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, March 28, 2017 The homeownership rate is near its lowest level in more than 50 years. But homeownership remains a “critical part” of the national economy and “ongoing weakness in the...
Mar 27, 2017 | Real Estate News
This Is the Worst ‘Housing Drought’ Ever Daily Real Estate News | Monday, March 27, 2017 The number of homes for sale is at the lowest level on record, according to the National Association of REALTORS®, who began tracking inventory 18 years ago. That means many home...
Mar 23, 2017 | Real Estate News
Leaf Program Benefits Eugene’s Leaf Program Provides Many Benefits Eugene’s leaf collection program is a stormwater-funded activity that has been available to Eugene citizens since the late 1960s. The program goals are to prevent street flooding caused by...