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Alex E. Proimos / Foter / CC BY-NC With slow but steady economic growth, the housing market is also responding with smaller increases and even some declining figures. Thus, the trends in housing are quite mixed. Roughly said, the Souther housing is on the rise, while the Northeast and Midwest are lagging. In total, read more »
Randy Heinitz / Foter / CC BY The national average diesel price fell to $4.016 last week according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. This decrease follows five straight weeks of increases during January and February. The total increase was 14.4 cents, which cent the price above $4 for the first time read more »
Thorsten Becker / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND The home equity owned by Americans who are over 62 years old is at a new high point. The NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI), which measures this equity, is at 165.7. This is its highest level since 2008, and the trend for increasing seems to be lasting. In read more »
Rosenfeld Media / Foter / CC BY More and more auto dealers are stumbling upon a new buyer phenomenon – the Millennial. The millennial customers are quite a different kind, which means that dealers need to adapt to their ways of shopping if they want to be successful with this generation. The most common characteristics of read more »
Photo Dean / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND Last week, mortgage applications were down 8.5% after seasonal adjustment of the percentage. The result comes from the Market Composite Index that measures the volume of mortgage loan applications. This decrease is surprising, as during this time of the year usually there is a notable improvement, which remains read more »
