-
National ‘rental crisis’ more a rental crunch in Palm Beach County
Source: Palm Beach Post Palm Beach County tenants are paying more for rent than they did last year, but the increase is below a jump of 4 percent seen nationally. Read more…
-
How Safe is your Florida property insurer in 2015?
Source: Palm Beach Post One company is so new it’s not even on the sign in front of its official address in state corporate records. An employee at the front desk never heard of the CEO. Another company did not exist three years ago. Now it cites trade-press reports declaring it the fastest-growing property insurer…
-
More than 81,000 Florida homeowners missing out on mortgage savings
Source: Palm Beach Post Florida has the highest number of homeowners nationwide failing to cash in on a federal mortgage program that could save them hundreds of dollars each month. Read more…
-
U.S. Home Prices Are Surging 13 Times Faster Than Wages
Source: Bloomberg.com For most people, buying a home is no cheap venture. That’s especially the case when the growth in U.S. home prices is beating wage increases 13 to 1. Read more…
-
The top 5 most and least affordable home markets
Source: Housing Wire With a projection that home prices and interest rates will increase and mortgage affordability will decrease, Detroit is predicted to be the most affordable and San Francisco the least affordable housing market this year, according to the first-ever realtor.com Mortgage Affordability Report. Read more…
-
What If There Was a Middle Option Between Renting and Owning?
Source: CityLab.com Ian Boyd started to think about buying a home in his late 20s, as he and his friends completed graduate school, coupled up, and started to think about children. During that time in 2009, Boyd knew that purchasing a home would pose a financial challenge. Read more…