Rentals

Catch up on the housing and mortgage industry issues pushing to the forefront of the 2024 election — and how each campaign is responding.

The number of properties sold over the past year was the fewest since 2009, the National Association of Realtors said.

Amid a rocky re-election campaign, the president announced the Biden-Harris Housing Plan, calling on Congress to incentivize landlords to cap rents and enable the construction of two million homes.

The income needed to afford a typical apartment is the highest since 2022.

Compared to a year ago, investors bought a greater number of properties and made up a larger share of overall purchases, returning to the market faster than individual buyers, according to Redfin.

In the four years since February 2020, rents have risen overall by approximately 28%, Corelogic found.

The cracks in the commercial real estate market are widening from offices to apartment complexes, with more than $67 billion of the housing potentially distressed as borrowers struggle to repay loans extended during the height of the pandemic.

Strategies used to falsify identities and property ownership highlight a public assistance vulnerability that could have implications for the mortgage industry.

Bigger metro areas Austin, Phoenix and Atlanta each added at least 16,000 units over the past year, increasing their inventories by as much as 5.6%. Rents consequently fell in each market.

The single-family rental giant struck a deal to manage homes for another major landlord at a time when scarce inventory of properties for sale is making it hard to expand.