Real estate news

• Millennials Still Chasing American Dream despite Hurdles

  26-11-2016 06:05
  
  Surprising to some, millennials are all about chasing the American Dream and owning a home of their own, despite current market and economic setbacks. This infographic from FirstTimeHomeFinancing.com explains what’s keeping millennials from pursuing their homeownership dreams and outlines several programs that could help them achieve their goals.This was originally published on RISMedia’s blog, Housecall. Visit the blog daily for housing and real estate tips and trends. Like Hou
  
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• Merle L. Whitehead: A Family-Built Powerhouse

  26-11-2016 06:03
  
  There was big news coming out of Upstate New York this summer when Merle L. Whitehead, chairman of RealtyUSA Broker Services, Inc., announced that he had sold the company to Pennsylvania giant Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, merging to create one of the largest real estate companies in the U.S.
  “When you look at mergers in the past, to the best of my knowledge, this is the biggest family-owned business buying another family-owned business,” Whitehead says. “Together, we sold
  
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• Refi Applicants Discouraged by Limited Credit Access

  26-11-2016 06:01
  
  The proportion of consumers who applied for credit and reported feeling “discouraged” by or “rejected” in their experience has clawed higher, especially among mortgage refinance applicants, in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s recently released Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) Credit Access Survey for October 2016. The finding underscores the overall sentiment of the consumers surveyed, which, according to the New York Fed, is “deterioratin
  
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