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While Black-owned residential properties increased in value by 42.5%, compared with 38.2% for all houses, Nicole Bachaud, senior economist with the company noted that "we're still a long way from housing equity."

Financial terms were undisclosed for the most recent acquisition.

The lack of housing — particularly on the lower price range — is becoming an increasingly urgent political issue. But it's also a twisted bramble of tradeoffs that politicians are reluctant to touch.

However, while the "market share" analysis is a useful check on the reasonableness of benchmark levels, it is impacted by any errors in the HMDA data, notes a former principal economist at the Federal Housing Finance Agency,

Prices nationally fell 0.3% in December from the month before, according to seasonally adjusted data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller.  

While it isn't a partnership between the firms, Amazon Web Services powers the loan origination system for the lender, which has funded over $1 billion in mortgage volume with the online retail giant's workers.

The share of all-cash deals rose to the highest since 2013 last year, while institutional investors, who usually account for many cash sales, retreated, according to data from real estate data analytics firm Attom. That suggests more regular buyers turned to self funding to dodge punishing mortgage rates.

As many had predicted, the federal regulator will be seeking to halt the acquisition by Intercontinental Exchange, according to a report from Politico.

The National Association of Realtors' index of contract signings to purchase previously owned homes increased 8.1% in January from a month earlier to 82.5. The jump beat all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists, which called for a 1% advance.

But even if plowing back into Treasuries proves to be a winning trade, sticking with it won't be for the faint of heart.