Housing Insights Central

Buying a foreclosed property can present an opportunity for savings, yet it's accompanied by certain risks that prospective buyers should keep in mind. Often, banks are keen on selling these properties at below-market...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has recently made big changes to the rules for making manufactured homes, also known as mobile homes.  These cha...

Saving up for a house down payment can take a long time—sometimes decades, depending on where you live in the United States. While buying a home may seem out of reach for many, there are some states where ach...

The cost of rent continues to increase across the country, making housing a struggle for many renters. But affordable options are still out there if you get creative. Here are some strategies for rente...

It's no secret that COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the economy. Any economist can tell you that we're in unprecedented times. The closest time in history to this was approximately 100 years ago with the so-...

Last week, rent strikes broke out in New York and a few other states, where thousands of people gathered around during the height of the virus pandemic to protest for free housing, among other things. Although it was simply l...

According to Forbes, one of the world's foremost financial publications, the "rental crisis of 2020" is upon is in full swing, and is one of the worst symptoms of Covid-19. Forbes has reached this conclusion by and large...

Since around the 1960s, under the "Great Society" initiatives, trillions upon trillions of dollars have been spent on tens of thousands of affordable housing projects, including everything from high-rise apartment buil...

There has been talk that COVID-19 could permanently change the housing market in the U.S. The thought was that people would be moving out of cities because they are afraid of crowded conditions leading to spread...