The week’s best real estate stories: Bizarre Mortgage Requests Delay Borrowers | Realtor Magazine Underwriters are being extra vigilant in verifying every detail of a mortgage application, and some of their requests for information, borrowers say, are downright odd.  Absurd! Historic Move in Rates Mortgage rates finally lost less ground than they have over the […]

The week’s best real estate stories: Making Multi-Generational Housing Work In our not-so-distant past, it was commonplace for multiple generations to live under the same roof. Real Estate: Pocket Listings in a Tight Market NAR: Buyer traffic up 29% from a year ago Existing-home sales improved for the second month in a row in May, […]

The week’s best real estate stories: The Return of the 10 Percent Down Payment | Zillow Blog Before the credit crisis of the mid-2000s, getting a home loan was simple. Your down payment was small — if you even had to make one. To qualify, all you had to do was “state” your income and […]

The week’s best real estate stories: Here is why it is not another housing bubble Real estate prices declined so much after the market bust that it will take a 60% price jump to reach bubble-era levels. First Of Its Kind, Consumer-facing MLS Website Launched We are going to be hearing more and more about […]

The week’s best real estate stories: More transparency and debate would only strengthen NAR | Inman News Social media has changed everything — even the National Association of Realtors. And there isn’t any way for NAR to take it back. Highlights from NAR’s 2013 Member Profile | realtor.org Want to know about the typical Realtor? […]

The week’s best real estate stories: Short-Sale Fraud by Realtors From Jim the Realtor, in Southern California. The way short sales work. Buying more beneficial than renting in 64% of metros | HousingWire In 64% of metro areas nationwide, buying a home is a better financial decision than renting for residents planning to stay in […]

The week’s best real estate stories: Realtor.com Upgrades Listings Database to Continue to Provide the Industry’s Most Accurate Housing Data Low Credit Scores Hold Back Many Borrowers | Realtor Magazine Realtor.com to Ramp Up Data Accuracy | Realtor Magazine Realtor.com has made several upgrades to its listing database that are all aimed at providing the […]

The week’s best real estate stories: Five Statements That Will Keep You Living With Your Parents H/T Brian Copeland Report warns that Memphis metro area tops list for ‘job sprawl’ » The Commercial Appeal Now a think tank has compared job sprawl among cities nationwide and decided Memphis ranks first. In no other midtier or […]