Tag: Government

New Home Purchase Apps Rebound in August

In August 2022, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that mortgage applications for new home purchases decreased 10.1% compared to August 2021. Data recorded in the MBA’s Builder Application Survey… Read more »

Fed Raises Interest Rates by 75 Points

For the third time in a row, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the nominal interest rate by 75-basis points at the conclusion of their scheduled two-day… Read more »

Overcoming Housing’s Acute Inventory Shortage

The shortage of housing—of both the affordable and merely available variety—is a forefront issue for housing-policy decision-makers, and is at the center of many recent studies aiming to gain understanding and… Read more »