Financing Fewer Homeowners to Use Mortgage Interest Deduction This Year The new tax law, effective January 1, 2018, nearly doubled the standard deduction. Consequently, 57 percent fewer taxpayers will claim the...
Financing Connecticut Home Values May Crash Due to New Tax Law The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed in December 2017, capped the state and local tax deduction. As a result, property taxes in states like...
Financing To Downsize, or Not to Downsize? For homeowners considering downsizing pre- or post-retirement, three important factors to consider are household space, financial sense, and...
Financing What Once Was Old May Be New Again: 'Cash Out' Refis Homebuyers who are currently seeking to refinance their mortgage as interest rates rise may be doing so to "cash out," rather than lower...
Financing Tech Startups Offer Work-Arounds for Rental Restrictions Several tech startups are now offering programs to would-be renters struggling with rental restrictions like high security deposits, minimum...
Financing The Impact of the Regulatory Rollback on Homebuyers Smaller banks may be relieved at loosening lending rules, but some experts say that the rollback of certain aspects of the Dodd-Frank...
New-Home Sales How Will Wall Street Affect Home Building? It's more likely that the stock market will adversely affect the housing market than the reverse
Financing Replacing Fannie and Freddie Affordable Housing Goals May Reduce Lending for Some Borrowers An expert panel forecasted that changes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Affordable Housing Goals will cause a decrease in lending to...
Financing Rising Mortgage Rates Will Not Curb Demand, Experts Say Mortgage rates are at a two-year high, which may impact the buying patterns of first-time homebuyers, though experts do not expect it will...
Affordability Innovative Financing for Affordable Housing Nontraditional sources and incentives offer feasible ways to enrich the nation's supply of affordable and workforce housing