December 22, 2017
Between shopping for gifts, wrapping, baking, booking travel, and buying enough groceries to feed all your houseguests, it’s easy to forget about one other holiday-related cost: […]
December 21, 2017
December 21, 2017
Consumers grew slightly less optimistic headed into the holidays, however optimism still remains at historical highs, according to the Survey of Consumers conducted by the University […]
December 20, 2017
December 20, 2017
Nearly half of all renter households – almost 21 million – were considered cost-burdened in 2016, according to a new report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. […]
December 19, 2017
December 19, 2017
Consumers, especially those with new access to credit cards, continued to rack up balances on their accounts, according to TransUnion’s Industry Insights Report for the third […]
December 18, 2017
December 18, 2017
Homeowners with mortgages, or 63% of the total, have collectively seen their equity increase 11.8% from the third quarter of 2016 to 3Q17, representing a gain of $871 billion year-over-year, according to […]
December 14, 2017
While the nationwide run-up in mortgage loan application defects appears to have slowed, instances of fraud remain on the rise in Texas and Florida. The First […]
December 12, 2017
The three major hurricanes that caused devastation during August and September were largely responsible for the third-quarter increase in mortgage delinquencies. The seasonally adjusted delinquency rate […]
November 21, 2017
During the recent CoreLogic and the Urban Institute’sHousing Finance, Affordability and Supply in the Digital Ageconference, CoreLogic Chief Economist Frank Nothaft predicted rising interest rates will […]
November 17, 2017
November 17, 2017
The government said that average hourly earnings rose 2.4% over the past 12 months. That’s a slip from the 2.9%increase reported in September. It remains below the 3% to 3.5% range that many […]