Reader, fire risks, nontraditional mortgages and your Monthly Statistical Update.  

Your first tuesday real estate news
Week of November 4, 2019

Rising price-to-rent ratio shadows a fragile housing market
Economists break down the volatile price-to-rent ratio.

Appraisals and the trouble with single point valuations
Usually, the appraisal is reduced to an exact dollar amount. But how useful and accurate is that single point valuation?

Homebuyers pay more when they don’t mortgage shop
Homebuyers who don’t mortgage shop are leaving a lot of money on the table.