Home Prices Keep on Upswing in February

Home Prices Keep on Upswing in February

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...
Pot Ignites a Real Estate Boom

Pot Ignites a Real Estate Boom

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...
Home Prices Blamed for Student Loan Defaults

Home Prices Blamed for Student Loan Defaults

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:...
Mortgage Rates Got Cheaper This Week

Mortgage Rates Got Cheaper This Week

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...
Homeowners Don’t Want Cookie-Cutter Lawns

Homeowners Don’t Want Cookie-Cutter Lawns

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...
The Economy’s Thorn: Low Ownership Rates

The Economy’s Thorn: Low Ownership Rates

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...
This Is the Worst ‘Housing Drought’ Ever

This Is the Worst ‘Housing Drought’ Ever

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...
Leaf Program Benefits

Leaf Program Benefits

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...