A Neighbors Bank analysis shows that rural housing markets are increasingly behaving like urban ones as homes are selling ...

A USDA home loan is a mortgage offered by the United States Department of Agriculture to low-income residents. These are usually people who live in rural areas and wouldn’t typically qualify for ...

Backed by the Department of Agriculture, USDA home loans can be used to finance up to 100% of a property’s appraised value with no down payment. Borrowers must buy a home in a qualifying rural ...

Leaders of the government mortgage programs suggest they're back to business as usual following the Trump administration's ...

President Trump’s proposed fiscal 2026 federal budget outline, released on May 2, proposes deep cuts and many outright eliminations for housing and other programs serving rural America. If adopted by ...

Low interest rates, no down payment for USDA rural development home mortgage loans The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development has announced a decrease in the home mortgage interest rate ...

A newly released study conducted by the University of Nevada, Reno Extension highlights a growing housing affordability ...

More states and communities are looking at accessory dwelling units to increase housing supply in rural areas. Aside from an extra mailbox, there’s little indication from the Newmarket, N.H., street ...

When supposed "fraud" becomes the headline, real solutions get pushed to the margins. In the case of housing, the real crisis ...

A growing number of rural Maine homeowners are at risk of losing their homes due to unresolved issues with USDA loans—some ...