by Eric C. Peck | Aug 12, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Average U.S. Home Down Payment Drops MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent Redfin reports that the typical U.S. homebuyer’s down payment is approximately $62,468, down by roughly one percent year-over-year, the first annual decline in nearly...
by Demetria C. Lester | Aug 10, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Law, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
FHFA’s Pulte Considers Crypto for Mortgage Application Process MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent In the American mortgage market, cryptocurrency may someday be just as important as cash. Today, Bill Pulte, Director of the U.S. Federal...
by Demetria C. Lester | Aug 9, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Law, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Fair‑Housing Advocates Head to Court Over HUD’s Withheld Grant Awards MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent On behalf of the Tennessee Fair Housing Council (TFHC) and the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), Relman Colfax PLLC, a civil... by Elizabeth Kanzeg | Aug 8, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices, Vacation Homes, Vacation Property, Waterfront
CCIAOR: “More for sale signs” across Cape Cod MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent May brought “welcome news” to the Cape Cod real estate market, according to a preliminary report released by the Cape Cod & Islands Association of...
by Demetria C. Lester | Aug 7, 2025 | Family, First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Homeownership Still Out of Reach for Many Americans MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent In an estimated ninety nine percent of counties with enough data to examine, median-priced single-family homes and condos were less affordable in quarter...
by Eric C. Peck | Aug 6, 2025 | Family, First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Congress Introduces Equity‑Driven Housing Bill to Close Homeownership Gap MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent Four Democratic members of Congress, including Reps. Maxine Waters, Al Green, Ayanna Pressley, and Sylvia Garcia, have announced...
by Demetria C. Lester | Aug 5, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Buyer’s Market Emerging as Sellers Lose Pricing Power MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent A new Redfin report revealed that just over twenty eight percent of homes in the U.S. are currently being sold for more than the asking price, a...
by Demetria C. Lester | Aug 4, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
House Committee Votes to Slash CFPB’s Consumer Compensation Fund MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been praised by consumers for its numerous achievements for more than a decade that have...
by David Wharton | Aug 3, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Freedom Mortgage’s Middleman on Mortgage Resilience & Homeownership MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent Stanley C. Middleman, President and CEO of Freedom Mortgage Corporation Welcome back to “Sidebar With Stan,” MortgagePoint’s quarterly...
by Demetria C. Lester | Aug 2, 2025 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market
Senators Unveil Bill to Adjust FHLBank Executive Pay MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The Curbing Unreasonable Remuneration at Banks (CURB) Act was presented by U.S. Senators Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.). The...