Founded
in 1949 to
spur home
sales and development
in rural
areas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's popular direct and guaranteed rural housing loans are one of the few places
in America you can still get a mortgage with no money down at competitive rates.
While strong demand and limited supply continued to edge prices higher and
spur farmland
sales in many parts of Canada, the report also found that some
areas saw prices level off and
sales volumes drop.
RISMEDIA, October 31, 2013 — Would - be San Francisco Bay
Area homebuyers spooked by fast - rising home prices, a brief uptick
in mortgage interest rates and potential fallout from the federal government shutdown took a break from their home search
in the third quarter of 2013,
spurring a slowdown
in home
sales that, for the first time
in recent memory, was accompanied by a decline
in median home prices, according to an analysis of MLS data by the research division of Better Homes and Gardens Mason - McDuffie Real Estate.