Regardless of its size, a home's outdoor space should be a showpiece in a listing.“This year it’s really about making your outdoor space function like an interior space for all things fun, lounging, and entertaining,” Gretchen Kennelly, a San Diego interior designer, told realtor.com®.Designers offered up some of their trend insights to realtor.com® for homeowners or sellers trying to maximize a home’s outdoor potential, including:Al
Fair housing is still an ongoing effort. In 2017, nearly 30,000 housing discrimination complaints were filed, a slight increase from 2016, according to the 2018 Fair Housing Trends Report: Making Every Neighborhood a Place of Opportunity. The report was released by the National Fair Housing Alliance. The NFHA asserts there are many more cases that are unaccounted for and estimates the number of offenses is around 3.7 million annually.More than h
Lennar, the nation’s largest homebuilder, announced a deal with Amazon that will make voice-activated digital assistants a standard feature in its new homes, as well as other smart devices. The new homes will include built-in Wi-Fi, smart locks, doorbells, thermostats, and lights that can be controlled by Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant, Alexa.“This will be the hallmark of why we buy a new home,” says David Kaiserman, president
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High demand for homes for sale mixed with low inventories is prompting bidding wars. Thirty-seven percent of properties that closed in March sold at or above the list price, according to the March 2018 REALTORS® Confidence Index Survey. That's higher than a year ago, when 35 percent of properties sold at or above the list price.“Buyer demand continues to outpace the supply of homes being listed for sale in the market, sustaining the upward p
Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development, accusing the agency of not following a rule intended to prevent segregation. The federal lawsuit names HUD Secretary Ben Carson.In January, HUD postponed an Obama administration rule—the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule—that required communities that receive funding from the agency to submit fair housing assessments. Those assessment
Homeowners are less likely to get a rude awakening when going through the mortgage process, according to the latest Quicken Loans Home Price Perception Index. Owners’ perception of home values are now the closest to being in line with appraisers’ than in more than three years.In April, appraised values were just 0.33 percent lower than what homeowners expected. Further, only five of the 27 metro areas analyzed in the index had appraisals lowe
Remodelers report that growing labor shortages are delaying projects and increasing the amount they have to charge homeowners, according to the National Association of Home Builder’s Remodeling Market Index survey for the third quarter of 2017. Those needing a carpenter may find the most trouble; 91 percent of remodelers reported shortages of labor in carpentry work.More than half of remodelers surveyed reported shortages in 12 of the 15 remode
Mortgage rates dropped last week, but that didn’t seem to push homeowners or home buyers to take advantage. Total mortgage applications—for home purchases and refinances—dropped 0.4 percent for the week. Volume is now 6 percent lower than a year ago, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday.Refinance applications, which tend to be the most rate-sensitive, dropped 1 percent last week and are now 18 percent lower than a year ago. M
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