NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As I entered my 30s, still navigating what achieving the dream would mean, I wondered what other black millennials were feeling. I wanted...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As Democratic Members of the House Financial Services Committee – the Committee of jurisdiction over HUD and FHA – we oppose the denial...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whatever happened to the American Dream of owning a home and giving your children a better life than you experienced as a child?...
CHARELSTON CHRONICLE — Origin SC offers an array of workshops to the public. Workshops focus on topics: credit improvement, homeownership, budgeting, and more! Below is a...
By Sarafina Wright (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) After weeks of bad press, Wells Fargo received an award acknowledging their efforts to diversify homeownership. The Mortgage Bankers...
Michelle Jamrisko, BLOOMBERG BUSINESS (Bloomberg Business) – Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell more than forecast in August as lean inventories slowed this year’s...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist What is important to 45 million Black Americans today should be important to all Americans. Yet, as the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our stock market has been correcting itself for quite some time. It appears that the major correction is on...
(ThinkAdvisor) – Home prices rose across the U.S. over the 12 months to June, according to data released Tuesday. The S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Money and credit are two items that affect nearly everyone. We earn, spend and sometimes save money. But it seems...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A long-awaited decision by the United States Supreme Court led to a June 25 ruling that preserves the usage of...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Most economists agree that the Great Recession, sparked by the housing market crash, officially ended in 2009,...
Lucia Mutikani, REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. home resales surged to a 5-1/2-year high in May as first-time buyers stepped into the market, the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that homeowners who declare bankruptcy can’t void a second mortgage even if the home isn’t worth what...
ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writers JOSH BOAK, AP Business Writers Young people aspiring to buy their first home are already facing disappointment this year. Rising prices...
Michael Corkery, THE NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI (The New York Times)—In September, Susan Rodolfi celebrated an unusual anniversary: five years of missed mortgage payments. She is...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Researchers studying the affects of public policy on the racial wealth gap estimated that the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A new economic analysis by the New York Federal Reserve Bank found fewer foreclosures, bankruptcies and credit card delinquencies....
(Reuters) – New U.S. single-family home sales fell only slightly in January despite big declines in the snow-battered Northeast while supply rose to its highest level...
Josh Boak, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home sales struck a snow drift in January, plunging to the slowest pace in nine months. The...
(CNN) – Owning a home is key to unlocking the American dream, but it’s much harder to achieve if you’re black or Hispanic. That’s according...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Chris Mathews’ crew showed up this month to demolish one of the thousands of vacant homes destined for demolition...
Dionne Searcey and Robert Gebeloff, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist About 800,000 homeowners whose mortgages were backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) could save $900 annually on mortgage costs,...
(NBC News) – As rents soar and the supply of rental housing remains constrained, 2015 could be the tipping point, pushing more renters to home ownership....
