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With unprofitable coal and nuclear plants continuing to shut down amidst current administration support, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2019's most and least energy-expensive states. Read on to find out what state made this list.

A paper by Collateral Analytics highlights the importance of providing a flexible modeling strategy when estimating risk for adjustable rate loans. The new Collateral Analytics Credit Risk Model (CRM) provides expected performance measures for individual mortgages over their lifetime, while providing the same types of risk measures for a pool of mortgages over their lifetime. Read on to learn more.

Sales of newly built, single-family homes fell 7.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 626,000 units in May, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. Read on for more information and numbers from the report.

NEXT Mortgage Events and Housing Finance Strategies, a Washington, D.C., advisory firm, announced the launch of an event to focus on current policy as well as housing issues that could be impacted by the 2020 election. Read on to learn more.

To help Americans settle down in the best and most affordable place possible, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 51 key indicators of livability. Read on to find out which state made the top grade.

The average home appraisal in May was 0.79 percent lower than what the owner estimated, according to the Quicken Loans Home Price Perceptions Index (HPPI).

While a lower than expected appraisal is never welcome news, this difference is the first improvement after six months of growing gaps.

Read on to learn more.

Average interest rates on all 30-year notes to millennial borrowers declined in April 2019, spurring an increase in refinance loans from members of the generation looking to take advantage of lower rates, according to the latest Ellie Mae Millennial Tracker. Read on to learn more from this report.

More than a year after the tax code overhaul, less than half of homebuyers say that tax reform has had an effect on their home search, according to a March survey commissioned by Redfin. Read on to learn more.

Representatives from government housing agencies said they are making progress in breaking down barriers that discourage mortgage lenders and servicers from working with them, according to an article from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Read on to learn more.

Sales of newly built, single-family homes fell 6.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 673,000 units in April.

This was after a sharp upwardly revised March report, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Read on to learn more from these findings.