Jessi Healey

Travis Winfield knows how to use a financial weapon most veterans never fire. Only about 13 percent of eligible veterans have used their VA home loan benefit, Winfield said, despite homeownership being one of the most accessible tools available to build wealth. A 24-year Navy veteran, Winfield is the founder of Military Operated Real Estate (MORE), a certification and referral network for agents who serve military families.

June’s housing data had something for everyone: Asking prices fell at a record pace, and days-on-market finally stopped growing. Home asking prices fell 2.5 percent year over year in June to a national median of $430,000, the steepest annual decline in Realtor.com’s data history, which dates to 2017, and the eighth consecutive month of decreases.

President Donald Trump still doesn’t have a major housing bill on his desk — and even when it arrives, he’s not promising to sign it. Trump declined to commit to signing the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, telling reporters at a White House press conference that the bill remains “so unimportant” compared with his push for the SAVE America Act. “The housing bill is a bill that could get approved. They worked on it long and hard.