2025 Existing Home Sales Expected to Stay Near Historic Lows Mortgage enterprise Fannie Mae has revised its 2025-2026 forecasts for mortgage interest rates and housing sales. Housing Sales Projections Fannie Mae lowered its expectations for existing home sales to 4% for 2025, from its prior for
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11/24/2024
The BackstoryOn paper, it seemed an impossible deal to get done. But my seller, who had purchased just 3 years prior, at the top of the market for that home type and location, had just returned from an overseas assignment, and was moving to the west coast. He needed to sell to buy again. So, I ha
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11/22/2024
The incoming Trump administration is gearing up to make additional reductions to financial regulations during his second term, putting the CFPB, SEC, FDIC and Federal Reserve on notice that change is coming. Or at least the attempt at change.Trump's stated mission to drastically reduce the power
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11/21/2024
In Washington DC, the real estate market has been considered a market of steel due to its government workforce and cachet as the nation's seat of power, but a second Trump administration may prove to be its Kryptonite.A second Trump presidency is an unwelcome disruption in the District, a city so
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11/11/2024