Panel Also Shares Thoughts on Most Impactful Potential Policy Reforms to Boost Housing Supply Following home price growth of 6.0% in 2023, a panel of housing experts forecasts annual national home price growth of 4.7% in 2024 and 3.1% in 2025, according to the Q3 2024 Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Home...
Year: 2024
HOUSING MARKETS IN CALIFORNIA, NEW JERSEY AND ILLINOIS STILL HAVE ELEVATED RISK OF DOWNTURNS IN SECOND QUARTER OF 2024
New York City and Chicago Areas Remain Vulnerable to Housing Issues Despite Strong Overall Markets; South Region Faces Less Exposure While West Has More ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released a Special Housing Risk Report spotlighting county-level housing...
Inventory Peaks at Highest Levels Since COVID, Latest HouseCanary Report Shows
A Seller’s Market Environment Continues to be Evident in the Housing Market, but Neutralization is on the Horizon with Inventory Levels Continuing to Rise Presumed September Interest Rate Cuts Is Anticipated to Free Buyers and Sellers from Previous Holding Patterns HouseCanary, Inc....
Falling Mortgage Rates Have Yet to Improve Home Sales, With Buyers Uncertain About NAR Settlement, Election
Pending home sales posted their biggest decline in nearly a year, despite the median U.S. housing payment dropping to its lowest level in five months Pending home sales fell 6.9% during the four weeks ending August 25, the biggest annual decline in nearly a year according to a new report from...
HOME MORTGAGE LENDING REBOUNDS NATIONWIDE WITH ACROSS-THE-BOARD GAINS IN SECOND QUARTER OF 2024
Residential Loans Surge 23 Percent Quarterly, Climbing Back to Levels from a Year Earlier; Purchase, Refinance and Home-Equity Lending All Increase; Despite Shift, Lending Activity Still Off Nearly Two-Thirds from 2021 Peak ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data,...
ZVN Properties
A Network of Consummate Professionals By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Deanna Alfredo, senior vice president of the ZVN Properties Inc.’s Single-Family Rental (SFR) division, thinks about how the company is evolving with the times and the industry, she can sum up one of the biggest changes with one...
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
“The Gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains” Attracts Visitors & Investors By Carole VanSickle Ellis Gatlinburg, Tennessee, has always been an attractive destination. Hundreds of years before the city was settled in 1806 as the settlement White Oaks Flats, Native American tribes traversed the...
From Framing Houses to Forging Customer Relationships
Jeff Watson, Home Depot’s Senior Director of Pro Sales West By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Jeff Watson was framing houses in college, he had no idea that his decision to leave that job and look for “more consistent” work at The Home Depot would result in a career with the company spanning more...
Cornerstone Building Brands
Bringing Relentless Customer Focus to Investors Everywhere By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Cornerstone Building Brands director of retail sales Jorge Castro talks to a potential or current client about their door-and-window needs for a project, he tends to ask a lot of questions. However, they are...









