• International Real Estate Sales Slide in U.S.

    Against insufficient inventory and mounting prices, international sales are sliding, according to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) 2018 Profile of International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate, an annual survey.
    Foreign home purchases sank 21 percent from April 2017 to March of this year, and, a considerable share of those surveyed “don’t know” what the future holds for the international segment. Comprising 8 percent of existing-home sales, there was
  • Homeownership Rate Ticks Up

    At the height of real estate season, the homeownership rate ticked up.
    According to Census data, the homeownership rate has risen to 64.3 percent—a departure from the first quarter of 2018, when the homeownership rate was 64.2 percent, as well as the second quarter of 2017, when the rate was 63.7 percent.
    For the all-important millennial segment—who are challenged by limited options in their price point—the homeownership rate is 36.5 percent, up from 35.3 percent in the first q

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