by Alexandra White | Apr 12, 2021 | Featured, Housing
Home prices continued to increase in January, indicating the pandemic housing boom continued into the new year because of the shrinking inventory of homes for sale and low mortgage rates. Nationally, home prices in January rose 11.2% from a year earlier, the highest...
by Alexandra White | Apr 12, 2021 | Housing
April Rice had always dreamed of becoming a homeowner. Recently promoted to analyst at a brokerage firm, Rice, 33, decided to start the process in November 2019. She contacted a mortgage broker, without a doubt that her $60,000 annual salary and 713 credit score would...
by Alexandra White | Feb 25, 2021 | Featured, Housing
Home prices continued to increase in December, signaling a high demand for single-family homes because of low mortgage rates and a shrinking supply of homes for sale. Nationally, home prices in December rose 10.4% from a year earlier, according to the S&P...
by Erika Wheless | May 18, 2020 | Featured, Housing
Like other landlords across the country, Larry Crites is concerned when he hears the words “rent strike”. Crites is a landlord for 8 buildings and 48 units in Seattle, Washington, and has been a property manager for 33 years. “There is a lot of talk about supporting...
by Erika Wheless | Apr 27, 2020 | Featured, Housing, Uncategorized
Tuesday’s Case Shiller Indices report will likely show modest gains in home prices for February 2020. Some economists are forecasting about a .3% gain. Home prices in January were strong due to low unemployment, low mortgage rates, and low interest rates. February...
by Erika Wheless | Apr 17, 2020 | Featured, Housing
Donnette Leftord of Flatbush, NY, won’t be able to pay rent on May 1. Leftord runs a small cleaning company. A few weeks ago, she learned that she was exposed to the virus when a woman whose apartment she cleans, died of COVID-19. “I have lupus, and am trying to...
