Trump ban on investor homebuying may sacrifice bigger real estate deal

Affordability has gone from being a dry financial term to an all-purpose hot button. Groceries, health care, child care, cars, gas — you name it, and affordability is attached to it these days. And then there’s housing, one of the stickiest issues in America’s affordability discussions.  On March 12, the U.S. Senate passed a massive housing bill addressing affordability and supply, mostly of single-family homes. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, chock-full of more than 40…

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Why home buyers are on the sidelines

Lorene Cowan, 44, thought she would own a home by now. However, in New York City, where Cowan lives and works, home prices have soared beyond reach. “I would love to buy a home. That’s the next step,” said Cowan, a business and life coach. But “in New York, the entry in became so much…

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