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A First: Tech Companies Work with Governments to Lower Homelessness

Tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area are typically associated with excessive wealth, greed, innovation, and general unaffordability for most. The lack of affordable housing in the region is relativel...

Bipartisan Senator Meeting Fails to Improve Housing for Military and Vets

America is in a constant state of partisanship, and has been ever since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson split the nation's politics right down the middle under George Washington's presidency...

Atlanta Floats Idea of $100 million Affordable Housing Bond

Decade after decade, the city of Atlanta, Georgia has dealt with an increase in their homeless population, as well as issues in offering affordable housing to their growing population. It's one of America'...

Keeping a Pulse on the Housing Market: How to Make Smart Moves

While no investment is guaranteed, one market has done exceptionally well, barring the Great Recession: Housing. This is because housing is a resource that will always be necessary. Unfortunately, it's also ...

Where Will Mortgage Rates Head in 2020?

One of the things that helped the housing market forward in 2019 was the fact that interest rates dropped over the course of the year, making mortgages less expensive. Experts now predict that the good times will persist throughout 2020...

Foreclosure: Here are Options When You Cannot Make Your Mortgage Payments

The economy has improved during the past decade. The number of foreclosures has decreased since the last financial crisis. It is noteworthy that foreclosure filings are down 18% which is an improvement ...

The Elusive Millennials Begin to Enter the Housing Market

Millennials have been slow to participate in the housing market. Historically, they have preferred to rent rather than own as a result of various factors. This has helped limit the sustained rally in home prices. Howev...

Real Estate Market Winners and Losers in 2020

As the home price rally continues, the market is beginning to be bifurcated into some areas where prices keep climbing unabated and others where home price gains have begun to plateau. The main factor that will influence prices in...

The 2020 Outlook for the Housing Market in an Era of Economic Uncertainty

Interest rates have stopped rising after increasing as the Federal Reserve Bank seeks to ward off a recession. In the past, rising interest rates has normally been a predictor of a stagnant housing mark...