Mortgage rates are finally dropping, but pending home sales fell even further into the toilet in July. That’s according to the July pending home sales index from the National Association of Realtors. On an annual basis, the index fell by 8.5% to the second lowest seasonally adjusted rate in the data

Vice President Kamala Harris, now officially the Democratic Party nominee for the President of the United States, is hitting the campaign trail with housing affordability as a central theme. “There’s a serious housing shortage,” Harris said at an event in battleground state of North Carolina, accord

April Noessel was in dire straits. Raising five children on her husband’s salary, she began flipping houses to make ends meet. Her family fell into debt when one of their flips went sour. The bad deal was particularly galling because of the indignities it took to get the home ready to sell. “I was w

The District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency (DCHFA) announced on Wednesday that it has relaunched its Reverse Mortgage Insurance & Tax Payment Program (ReMIT), which originally began in 2019 and expanded in 2020. Qualifying senior homeowners who live in Washington, D.C., can receive financial as