Housing shortage expected to continue through 2017, maybe longer
The only ways to improve that is for builders to put up more homes or the investors to begin selling them.
Down payment is biggest hurdle for renters to buy homes
Renters who want to be homeowners consider the biggest challenge to grabbing that rung on the American Dream ladder is coming up with the money for the down payment. That renters down payment challenge assessment from the Zillow Aspirations Report shows that 70 percent of respondents cited coming up with the down payment more difficult…