Housing Market
All Reports
February 11, 2015
Congressional lawmakers grilled HUD Secretary Julian Castro about the FHA's high default rate and questioned his recent move to cut borrowing costs.
February 5, 2015
For the best chance of selling your home quickly and at a premium, your best bet is to list it in the spring: 39 percent of homes listed between March 21 and June 20 in the past five years went under contract within 30 days and 15 percent of them sold for more than list price. But winter is a very close second bet, just one percentage point behind in each measure.
February 5, 2015
Record-setting demand, more inventory, easier lending conditions and low interest rates are signaling that the housing market will be strong this year.
January 29, 2015
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a big regulator of mortgages, today said it wants to make it easier for small and rural banks to make home loans.
January 27, 2015
Low-down-payment mortgage loans aren't the root of all economic evil. In fact, they can do a lot of good — giving people access to homeownership, for example. That's why some people in Washington are making it easier for you to buy a house with only 3 percent down.
