Priced Out? A Condo or Townhome Could Be Your Way In.

Home prices have plenty of buyers, especially first-time buyers, wondering if anything on the market actually fits their budget. The instinct is to keep waiting, keep saving, or keep searching for a single-family home that may not show up anytime soon. But narrowing the search to single-family homes

More Homes, Better Prices: A Buyer’s Summer

Buying a home over the past few years has meant fighting two problems at once: prices that kept climbing and too few homes to choose from. Both of those pressures are easing this summer. National data from Realtor.com shows sellers are pricing more realistically and more homes are hitting the market

Student Loans Are Back in the News. Don't Let It Put Your Homeownership Plans on Hold.

Student loan headlines have been hard to miss lately, and if you carry that debt, the question is a fair one: does it rule out buying a home right now? The short answer is no. Having student loans doesn't automatically disqualify a borrower from a mortgage, but it does change how a lender reads the

Down Payments in 2026 Are at Their Lowest Point Since 2021

Down payments are lower right now than they have been at any point since 2021. That is not a projection. It is what the data shows, and it changes the entry math for buyers who have been putting off a purchase because the savings target felt out of reach. What the Numbers Show According to Realtor.c