What Can Vacancy Rates Tell Us About the Housing Shortage?

What Can Vacancy Rates Tell Us About the Housing Shortage?

To find out, economists can examine vacancy rates to get a pretty accurate pulse on the health of the housing market. And as we enter a new decade,
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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI) Stock in the Day Traders Queue?

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI) has a market capitalization of $2.80B. Knowing about the market capitalization of a company helps
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Home Price Deceleration: Over or Merely on Pause?

FHFA bases its HPI on home prices of purchase mortgages acquired by the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The index was benchmarked at 100
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DC region slightly lags nation in home-value appreciation

National year-over-year home-value growth in November declined to its lowest point since January 2013, as the housing market continued its return to
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Behind the Bond Boom No One Saw Coming in 2019

It's pretty much never a good idea to call out someone else's incorrect forecast in hindsight, especially if you're also in the business of prognosticating
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FHFA: US home prices climb 5% from last October

The FHFA monthly HPI is calculated using home sales price information from mortgages sold to or guaranteed by, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Biden Holds Narrow Edge Over Trump in Florida: Campaign Update

Joe Biden holds a narrow edge over Donald Trump in a head-to-head match-up in Florida, the only leading Democratic candidate currently presenting
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Ingvar Kamprad, the reclusive billionaire who founded Ikea, grew up selling pencils in Swedish …

8 on Bloomberg's Billionaires Index thanks to his control of a $58.7 billion Ikea fortune. His personal assets were confirmed at about $130 million at the
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Lennar: A diversified homebuilder with fintech upside?

There is currently a deep supply/demand imbalance with respect to the U.S. housing market. The latest National Association of Realtors Existing
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Africa's Wealthiest Man Ends The Year $4.3 Billion Better Off

Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, became $4.3 billion richer in 2019 as his fortune continued to grow on the back of investments in cement, flour and
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Watch these 5 key trends in the economy in 2020

Here are five key trends in the U.S. economy to watch in 2020: … The real estate sector in particular is primed for a stronger 2020 — thanks to lower
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The Wealthiest Members of Congress—And How They Made Their Millions

Romney made his fortune working for Bain & Company and later helped create the private equity spinoff Bain Capital. In the years following, Romney
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2019 – Year in Review

As we turn the page on 2019, we wanted to take a look back at how mortgage rates fared as well as some of the key themes in mortgage news over
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BofA Defeats Class Certification in Mortgage Assistance Case

BofA Defeats Class Certification in Mortgage Assistance Case … gave them an extended runaround on mortgage-assistance documentation and
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House Hunters Zoom in on English Port City of Bristol

Strong demand made the housing market in the Bristol metro area, which boasts a population of roughly 1 million people, among the most robust in
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2020 Vision: Intown real estate professionals look forward to a strong market

The real estate market in Atlanta's Intown neighborhoods has seen a lot of changes over the last decade. Overall, they've been positive. Since 2010
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Dallas Markets Tout Record Buying, Trade Group Attendance

A record number of buying groups and trade groups will be in attendance at … and broaden their reach to market attendees from around the world.”
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Real Estate Transactions for Dec. 31

Dec. 16. Rube R. Wakley and Nancy K. Wakley to Max Dron and Svetlana Dron, Elm Hills Subdivision, lot 5. David G. Pottoroff and Chelsey M.
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OverDrive's New Owners: What It Means

This news on the digital lending front has sparked considerable interest and raised numerous questions from the library community. OverDrive holds
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Home Prices Nationwide See Three Percent Gain in October

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 3.3 percent annual gain in
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