Only 14% of Consumers Believe It's a Good Time to Buy a Home, a New Survey Low The Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) decreased 0.6 points in November, remaining within the bounds of the low-level plateau it established in the first half of 2023. Consumers' perceptions...
Month: December 2023
Simply Homes Secures $22M to Expand US Affordable Housing
Funding will go towards buying homes in major Midwest markets to address the public housing crisis and create economic mobility Simply Homes, an automated Single Family Rental (SFR) sourcing and underwriting platform developed to help solve the affordable housing crisis by mobilizing stagnant...
BofA Report Shows Fewer Prospective Homebuyers Willing to Wait for a Better Market Environment
62% willing to wait for prices and/or rates to fall before buying a home, down from 85% just six months ago Prospective homebuyers' patience may be waning, with fewer willing to wait until home prices or interest rates come down to purchase a home, according to new data from the Bank of...
Rently and PlanOmatic Partner to Deliver Time-Saving Photo Feed Automation
Integration enables faster syndication, accelerates time-to-market Rently, a leading provider of self-touring and smart home technology solutions, and PlanOmatic, a nationwide provider of quality photography, floor plans, and 3D tours for the single-family rental industry, are pleased to announce...
HOUSING MARKETS FACING GREATER RISK OF DOWNTURNS CLUSTERED IN CALIFORNIA, NEW JERSEY AND ILLINOIS
New York City and Chicago Areas Again Have Higher Concentrations of Markets More Exposed to Declines, Based on Third-Quarter Data; At-Risk Markets Have Weaker Foreclosure, Underwater and Job Measures; Less-Vulnerable Areas Mainly in South, Midwest and New England ATTOM, a leading curator of land,...

Dwellsy
A Functional Marketplace on Multiple Levels By Carole VanSickle Ellis Renting has been difficult in the 2020s, and that goes for all parties involved. While residents tend to make the headlines most frequently due to housing shortages and skyrocketing rent rates, landlords and institutional...

Market Report
How Real Estate Will Surprise Us in 2024 By Carole VanSickle Ellis At the start of 2023, many real estate analysts expected the year to bring a “return to normal” for real estate the same way many Americans had hoped for a “return to normal” following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in previous...

Maximize The Profits on Your Renovations
Take a True Look at Each Deal in Front of You By Rodney Mollen Renovating properties has been a tried-and-true method of creating investment value in real estate for decades. During up markets and down markets alike, there are always opportunities to create value-add profitability with a good...

From Appraiser to CEO And Everything In Between
Larry Goodman, CEO, HomeVestors of America By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Larry Goodman, CEO of HomeVestors of America, graduated from the University of Alabama with a real estate finance degree in 1987, he dove right into the industry as a real estate appraiser in Miami, Florida. It was not long...