Twenty U.S. metropolitan areas are now part of the expanding Improving Markets Index as of this month, according to the National Association of Home Builders and First American Title Insurance. The February IMI list now includes 259 metro areas and has all 50 states represented on the list, including the District of Columbia. The new […]
According to the recent National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index, 103 housing markets were qualified to be listed as “improving.” That is up from last month’s figure of 99 markets and the largest number of improving metro areas since the Index was created last year. Of that number, eleven metro areas were […]
If finding a job in the current economic climate wasn’t difficult enough, job seekers have one more potential roadblock on the way to securing a new position: their credit file. Based on a recent survey, up to half of employers eliminate potential job candidates with low credit scores. Though some 20 states have introduced recent […]