Tagged: insurance

Home prices, rates, and property taxes all expected to affect homebuyer decisions in 2025

Rates of buyers' remorse rising with average homeowners spending $24,529 annually on non-mortgage housing costs

One-third of typical mortgage payment now made up of taxes and insurance

"I could have lost all my equity,” says Selma Hepp, who lives and works on the frontline of housing's biggest challenge in 2025

Confidence drops amid rising costs, insurance challenges, and policy uncertainty

Calling for solutions to an escalating homeownership crisis, federal officials scrub "climate change" from their vocabulary

Table stakes are rising for mortgage lenders ahead of 2025, as policy pivots loom and sales forecasts are adjusted

Head of the OCC shares front-line perspectives as federal agencies prepare for a second Trump administration

While monthly principal, interest, and property tax obligations are up an average 15-17% since the beginning of 2020, the average monthly property insurance payment is up a staggering 52% over that same period.

The average monthly payment among active mortgages hit a record $2,070 in August, up $140 from last year