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Volunteers of America Ohio & Indiana has announced plans to build and operate a certified community-based recovery housing facility for women with young children on the west side of Indianapolis. [...]

Washington, D.C.--With budget deficits causing serious belt-tightening at the state and federal level, affordable housing advocates are bracing for some tough years ahead, with funding for a number of programs [...]

The changing scene of the factory built housing is due to distribution being reinvented. Chattel business will go up due to decreased interest rates. Some future forecasting has been done to show market trends.

Byline: Bonnie Sinnock There is a Phil Rizzuto in the home lending business again, and that's appropriate, because home equity is making a comeback. Rizzuto, a third cousin and namesake [...]

Get ready America for assisted living to be the engine of growth in the seniors housing business over the next three years. That's the takeaway from a newly released survey [...]

As much as we want to leave last year's housing market behind and hope for improvement in the new year, signs are not looking good. Until creditworthy home buyers return [...]

June mortgage fundings by Countrywide Financial Corp. rose 4% from May, to $46 billion, and the home lender warned Monday of a softening housing market that has caused defaults to [...]

Subprime mortgage lending decimated many of Detroit's older neighborhoods 40 years ago as an ill-conceived federal response to the 1967 riot. Today, private lenders are promoting the same potentially damaging [...]

It is common knowledge that the financial health of the U.S. consumer is largely tied to the health of the housing market. The explosive growth in the home equity finance [...]

May foreclosure filings in Massachusetts jumped 63% from April and 81% from a year earlier, to 2,002, and the impact has spread beyond the state's urban centers, according to ForeclosuresMass [...]

Housing finance is a booming business globally - in developed markets since the 1990s (see figure 1) and more recently in emerging markets (see figure 2). Mortgage debt exceeds 40% [...]

While New Orleans factions wrangle over public monies and plans necessary to revitalize their ravaged city, one hotel REIT is pushing forth its own private plan to help recast the [...]

At long last, CP06/8 sets out FSA proposals to extend the consumer protection provided by a regulated regime into home-reversion plans and Ijara home financing arrangements. This development has been […]

Mortgage equity withdrawal fell by 17 per cent in the last quarter of 2005, but does this figure shed any real light on borrowing habits? Experts in the mortgage industry [...]

The five-year bull market in housing has understandably been good to homebuilding stocks. The PHLX housing sector index, the best measure of sector-wide equity performance, goes back only three years, [...]

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- When the San Antonio Alternative Housing Corporation purchased a 23-acre site for a new housing development, little did it know it would become such a hot [...]

While upgrades of bonds backed by residential mortgage loans continue to outpace downgrades, some aspects of the housing-related securities market do not look so bright. Manufactured housing bonds continue to [...]

Overall, delinquencies edged up a bit in the second quarter of this year, according to the MBA. But some loan types faired better - and worse - than others. The [...]

Fuelled by frustrated first -time buyers unable to find affordable property, the rental market is booming and investors are cashing in. Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that [...]

Mortgage companies in San Antonio such as the Legacy Mutual Mortgage continue to book loans despite the recession. Current homeowners are finding the 5% interest rates on mortgages as an opportunity to refinance. Record-low interest rates have also increased interest in home purchases.

Funding for affordable rental housing in the United States has been adversely affected by the economic recession. The Shelter Group had to accept more risk in financing two housing projects. Investors' refusal to buy state bonds is seen as a reason for the development.

The financial crisis will likely make the development of affordable housing in Ohio more challenging. While there is need to provide affordable housing options for those that are hardest hit by the crisis, lenders are expected to be tighter in lending cash. Other views on the expected impact of the financial crisis on affordable housing in Ohio are presented.

STRONG UK HOUSING and retail spending figures for last month were undermined by fresh signs that the manufacturing sector has weakened, and indications of an emerging slowdown in the eurozone [...]

The affordability index produced monthly by the California Association of Realtors to show how many--or in the case of San Diego County--how few people can afford to buy a median-priced [...]

More than 1 million potential first-time buyers have been squeezed out of the housing market over the past five years because of a lack of mortgage finance, CB Richard Ellis [...]