Nearly one in five Realtors has sold a home to an international client in the past year, according to the National Association of Realtors.Most international homebuyers purchased single-family homes or townhomes, but 22% bought condominiums/apartments, compared with only 12% of U.S. homebuyers, the association reported in its 2007 NAR Profile of International Home Buying Activity. The study also found that 28% of foreign buyers bought their houses with cash, compared with 8% of U.S. homebuyers. The median price of homes bought by international buyers was $299,500, compared with the U.S. median of $221,900 for the same period, the NAR reported. The association can be found online at http://www.realtor.org.
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Median purchase loan payments hit $2,198 in May, up 2.1% from April, as rising rates and home prices threaten to dampen origination volume, MBA reports.
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Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Thursday morning that the central bank recently finalized a new organizational structure for its supervision and regulation division.
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