In a city with 80,000 empty homes and 100,000 vacant lots, dreams are starting to come true. With just $1000 to purchase, and about $30k for renovations, Antjuan Wyatt and… Read More »

In an effort to bring more buyers into the market, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, regulator of two of the country’s largest lenders, Fannie and Freddie, is planning to relax… Read More »

If you’ve been in real estate for more than a month, you know that touring with new clients, or old ones, for that matter, can get a little tedious. It’s… Read More »

Lenda, a San Francisco-based start-up, has launched a web-based platform that allows prospective borrowers to complete a loan process entirely online, without the aid of a mortgage broker. Since the… Read More »

According to Realtor.com, listing inventory is down almost 3% from a year ago, with a median price increase of almost 8%. Among the top cities with dwindling inventory, Las Vegas,… Read More »

There’s little doubt that the economy has improved. Unemployment is down, and confidence is up, at least in general. But it can be tough to determine the extent of the… Read More »

At a bipartisan conference on housing, NAR President Steve Brown made a case for relaxing certain FHA policies that he says have impeded homeownership opportunities for many first-time buyers and… Read More »

Phantom MLS websites like Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com are starting to feel the sting of rejection from real MLS organizations in the Nashville and Pittsburgh metro areas. In Nashville, the… Read More »