The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals just released its fifth annual State of Hispanic Homeownership Report. Ilyce speaks with Marisa Calderon, Chief of Staff and Deputy Executive Director of NAHREP, about the highlights of the report and how Hispanics are impacting the U.S. housing market as a whole.
TAMPA, Fla. (April 6, 2015) – Angela Mora with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group recently attended the 2015 Housing Policy and Hispanic Lending Conference in Washington, D.C. The annual event, presented by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP®), gathers the nation’s industry leaders from real estate and lending to discuss issues…
Housing analysts have consistently complained that credit remains overly tight, lenders haven’t been lending and borrowers are having a hard time getting home loans. Now, the Urban Institute has numbers to back up those complaints. In a new study, the Washington, D.C.-based policy institute says more than 4 million home loans are “missing” from the…
by NationalMortgageProfessional.com The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) released its State of Hispanic Homeownership report revealing barriers Latinos confront in attaining homeownership at its Annual Housing Policy and Hispanic Lending Conference last month. Also presented at the Conference was the NAHREP Foundation’s Hispanic Wealth Project Blueprint, an initiative to triple Latino household…
by Gino Blefari Knowledge is an important component of leadership. If we’re diligent about it, knowledge is an ever-changing, evolving thing, allowing us to continually improve, progress and grow. Recently, I was in Washington, D.C. at the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals® (NAHREP) White House Briefing. The meeting proved an exciting opportunity to…
by HispanicPoliticalCaucus A new report reveals that although home ownership in the U.S. Hispanic community increased in 2014, the growth rate slowed down in respect to previous years. On Monday, the State of Hispanic Home ownership Report published a study showing that the rate of homeownership among Hispanics fell from 46.1 percent in 2013 to…
by Cassandra Dowell The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is looking at the way companies calculate credit scores as part of its effort to improve credit access to Americans, HUD Secretary Julian Castro recently told several real estate trade groups. “We do hear about the need to look at new ways of incorporating…
by Peter Thomas Ricci The numbers could not be clearer: Hispanics will play a greater and greater role in the U.S. housing market. hispanic-homeownership-housing-nahrep-latino-us-economy Hispanics are growing in prominence in the United States, and in few areas will they have a more pronounced impact than housing. That was the main finding of “The 2014 State…
by CHRISS W. STREET According to the California Realtors’ home ownership affordability report, only 28 percent of Los Angeles residents can afford to buy a home in Los Angeles, due to the combination of low inventory and the fact that the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act made it much harder for immigrants and first-time buyers to…
A diverse group of housing industry stakeholders participated in a credit access symposium recently to discuss how alternative credit scoring models could expand access to mortgage credit for responsible borrowers who may have thin credit histories or extenuating circumstances like medical debts. The event, co-hosted by the National Association of REALTORS®, the Asian Real Estate…