Tag Archives: Homeownership

Federal officials are pondering the weight of student loan debt on young adults and if the benefits of higher education outweigh the downside of student loan debt when it comes to homeownership?

The latest national index produced by Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University faculty indicates the United States housing market as a whole is moving marginally deeper into buy territory.

With a rise in the rental market and a decrease in the homeownership rate, is student debt holding buyers back from entering the market?

The majority of millennials say they do eventually want to buy a home so why are we not seeing the jump being made from rental to purchase?

The two major party presidential candidates have not said much about housing but lawmakers and industry stakeholders are bringing the issue back to the forefront.

Recent reports saying that borrowers burdened with student loan debt are having a hard time attaining homeownership. Those reports may be exaggerated, however.

While the national market now has enough momentum to be an engine of economic growth, the lingering pressures on homeownership, the eroding affordability of rental housing, and the growing concentration of poverty are very much in the way.

As for the growing sentiment in the mortgage industry that millennials are not interested in homeownership, the survey results seem to indicate the contrary.

The supply of affordable rental housing is low, but the demand for those properties is there, according to Moody's.

While mortgages are performing better and the default space occupies a much smaller portion of the mortgage industry than it did at its peak six years ago, one troubling stat lingers.