homeownership
Home Values

Forum Calls For More Inclusive Access to Homeownership

FHFA, policy experts, and journalists join NAR-Urban Institute discussion on accessibility and affordability challenges. Reforming mortgage finance and other policies to make homeownership more accessible for underserved communities are key to closing the equity gap […]

Multifamily housing
Commercial Real Estate

Multifamily housing construction starts boom

The Census Bureau’s new residential construction report for April showed continued high levels of multifamily housing construction permit issuance and unit starts, but unit completions declined, resulting in another increase in the number of units under construction. Note […]

Fannie Mae
Loan Markets

Fannie Mae forecasts a slowing economy

Fannie Mae’s latest economic forecast calls for lower GDP growth and higher inflation in 2022 than in earlier forecasts. Their new housing forecast predicts multifamily housing starts to be higher in 2022 but lower in […]

Rental Assistance
U.S. Market

Emergency Rental Assistance update

The latest report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury states that, as of the end of March, 74 percent of the $25 billion in emergency rental assistance funds allocated under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 had […]