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Where to Buy a Home If You Haven’t Saved for a Big Down Payment
Shannon Workman/Shutterstock If you’ve been saving to make a down payment on a home, you may not have to put money aside for as long as you’d thought, thanks to the average required down payment being...
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New Data Shows a Deeper Polarization of ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-Nots’ in Housing
HerminUtomo/iStock Eight years after the mortgage crisis, the national housing market has healed. But as with any trauma, some scars linger, and some regrowth is uneven. A report out Thursday from the...
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It’s Cheaper to Live on a Cruise Ship Than in These Cities
baona/iStock Cruise lovers, rejoice! It’s actually cheaper to cruise nonstop for an entire year than to pay rent and live in many major U.S. cities. That’s the latest finding of a study by cruise...
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Terrified to Buy a Home? Your Top Fears Debunked
DeanDrobot/iStockYou wake up in a cold sweat. There’s something lurking in the dark, visible by flickering computer light. Something’s haunting you. It’s… the real estate listings! Deep down, you’d...
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How Much Rent Can I Afford? Crunch Your Numbers Here
BartekSzewczyk/iStockIf you’re looking to rent an apartment, you may be wondering, “How much rent can I afford?” It’s definitely not a number you should pull out of thin air. Nor does any landlord want...
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How Much You’ll Need to Earn to Make Mortgage Payments in 15 Big Cities
Davel5957/iStockJust because you’re not raking in the big bucks—or, perhaps, many bucks at all—it doesn’t mean you can’t become a homeowner, even in a big city. Buyers need to earn only $20,294 a year...
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Top 10 Affordable Small Towns Where You’d Actually Want to Live, 2017 Edition
Wapakoneta, OH: David Howells/Corbis via Getty Images; Dennis K. Johnson/Getty ImagesGreensburg, IN: Gary Gardiner/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAh, the ever-exciting city life: It’s not everyone’s cup of...
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Afraid of a Bubble? Buy Without Fear in These Top 10 Stable, Growing Markets
marekuliasz/iStock; omersukrugoksu/iStock; drmakkoy/Getty ImagesToday’s rapidly skyrocketing home prices are making more than a few people nervous. After all, it was only about a decade ago that the...
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How to Negotiate a Realtor Commission
lewkmiller/iStockSelling a house involves a trinity: buyer, seller, and Realtor®. The buyer gets a new home, the seller gets to cash a big check, but what does the Realtor get? A commission, of course!...
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New Tariff on Canadian Lumber Could Make Buying a Home Even More Expensive
dpproductions/iStockWhat do a new tariff on Canadian softwood lumber and rising U.S. home prices have in common? More than many American home buyers might realize. The Trump administration imposed a...
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Top 10 Cities Where Women’s Salaries Are Catching Up With Men’s
Peopleimages/iStockIt’s a sad reality that, in the U.S., women earn less than men for the same jobs—generally, 70-something cents for each dollar of a man’s salary in most parts of the U.S. But it...
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Could President Trump’s 2018 Budget Make Housing Great Again?
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has promised to “make America great again.” But housing advocates are worried that the president’s proposed budget for 2018, which aims to cut $4.3...
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Most Millennials Want Homes, but Don’t Have Even $1K in Down Payment Savings
Anchiy/Getty ImagesMost millennials dream of becoming homeowners one day. But a recent report shows that a majority of them haven’t saved anywhere near the amount necessary for a down payment, putting...
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Tiny Might Be Trendy, but Homebuilders Have Been Thinking Big—Until Now
mevans/iStockThese days it seems like it’s all about downsizing. Millennials and baby boomers are competing for the same smaller, more affordable, and easier to manage abodes, and everyone is talking...
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The 10 Best and Worst Cities for First-Time Home Buyers in 2017
gguy44/iStock; loveguli/iStockHoping to buy your first home? Texas is calling. New analysis by finance site WalletHub has found that the Lone Star State boasts four of the top 10 cities for first-time...
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Suburban Poverty Is Growing—and It’s Affecting Housing Markets
Bestgreenscreen/iStockPoverty is something most Americans don’t like to think much about—unless they’re struggling to rise out of it. When they do focus on it, images of rural shacks or dilapidated...
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The Worst Places to Live, 2017: Brace Yourself for Some Surprises
felixmizioznikov/istockPeople love arguing about which cities in the United States are “the best” places to live. But what about the worst? Courtesy of a new survey by WalletHub, you might be shocked...
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Looking to Make a Quick Buck? Sell Your Home
Feverpitched/iStockYou’ve heard it all before: It’s a home seller’s market out there. Need proof? In the second quarter of 2017, sellers raked in an additional average of $51,000 per sale over what...
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Why Are High Earners Moving Toward Renting Instead of Buying?
Hero Images/Getty Images; realtor.comSo you think you have the average American renter all figured out—that they’re a group of young, unsettled, commitmentphobic folks, just starting out and scraping...
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Will It Become Harder to Afford a Home? Experts Say Yes
Photobuay/iStockDespite a red-hot real estate market, most aspiring buyers can still afford to buy a home—if they can find one. But it may not be that way for much longer. Households bringing in at...
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