June 2025

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Condominiums have historically been our most affordable site-built homeownership option. However, escalating insurance costs, concerns about the structural integrity of condos, and more stringent underwriting requirements threaten to undermine the advantages of this critical home purchase option. Is there a way forward that […]

The potential for mortgage lending fraud accelerated over the past year, with risk related to undisclosed transaction details driving much of the surge, according to Cotality. In its latest report, the real estate data platform found fraud risk was up 7.3% year over year in the first quarter. Risk lessened over time, though, coming in

It’s a buyer’s market, but homeowners are still recouping all-time high sales prices.  Sellers are netting an average sales price of $400,266 over the four weeks ending June 22, according to Redfin. That figure is up 1.6% from the same time last year, in a housing market currently beset by near 7% mortgage rates and