A Court Ruling Makes Mortgages Vanish Into Thin Air

(Bloomberg Opinion) — For generations, budding lawyers have been taught that if the bank forecloses on your mortgage and can’t […]

Wave of Hispanic buyers boosts US housing market

Hispanics are experiencing the largest homeownership gains of any ethnic group in the U.S., a turnaround for the population hardest […]

The cities most at risk of a housing bubble

There are signs that the U.S. housing market is starting to cool down, but there’s still significant overheating in some of […]

Housing Bubble: Insider Says Current Real Estate Bubble is About to Burst

We’re in the Middle of a Housing Bubble: Sam Zell Real estate mogul Sam Zell predicts the current housing bubble […]

49 Years of Income and Home Values

by Jill Mislinski Often conversations about home buying end up in discussions on the high cost of homes today and […]

Big banks are fleeing the mortgage market

Banks originated 74% of all mortgages in 2007, but their share fell to 52% in 2014, the most recent data […]

Underwriting the Next Housing Crisis

  By PETER J. WALLISON   WASHINGTON — SEVEN years after the housing bubble burst, federal regulators backed away this month from the […]

Why the Housing Market Is Still Stalling the Economy

  If the economy still feels stuck, blame the housing market. That may not match how people in a handful […]

Investing’s Biggest Irony: Everyone Thinks They’re a Contrarian

By Morgan Housel, Motley Fool,   Robert Shiller won the Nobel Prize in economics last year for his research on […]

5 QUESTIONS ON THE STATE OF MORTGAGE LENDING

  Anyone who’s tried to get a mortgage in recent years knows that it hasn’t been easy. But there are […]