Realtor.com surveyed 1,000 recent homebuyers to reveal that 80% were pet owners. Among those with pets, 90% said their animals’ needs were essential to their decision of purchasing a home, and most of them would pass up their dream home if it didn’t work for Fido.
Lender Fairway Independent Mortgage announced this week it has implemented Cloudvirga’s digital mortgage platform for consumers and its loan officers.
According to Realtor.com, home prices are rising at three times the rate of rent growth. A new analysis by the real estate company’s research division shows that the monthly costs of buying a home have risen by 14% over the past year while rents have only increased by 4%. That’s likely to keep people renting.
The NRP Group, a multifamily company, is breaking into the Atlanta market. NRP just hired Johnson Bazzel as vice president of development for its newly minted Atlanta division, and the company says this is part of its larger efforts toward increasing its footprint in the Southeast.
Former President Jimmy Carter says this country is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, and something needs to be done about it. In an interview with CNBC this week, Carter said the Trump administration is ignoring the situation and urged voters to take a stand. “Low-income housing needs to be raised much higher as a priority for our country,” Carter said.
A Connecticut real estate agent landed in jail after he left his two young daughters alone in a car while showing a home. Karl Luberda only took around 20 minutes to show a property to his client last week. But for local police, that took too long.
Trevor Traina, tech entrepreneur and U.S. ambassador to Austria, is listing his San Francisco home for rent. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Katherine Clarke, when it lists, the home will be the most expensive rental in all of San Francisco’s backbreakingly expensive rental market. This one takes the cake in more ways than one.
An estimated 10,000 Baby Boomers are expected to enter retirement every day by 2030, but data reveals that an alarming number are financially unprepared for retirement. As older adults search for ways to bolster their retirement savings, will accessing their home equity be the answer?
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