Home-Shopping Boosted by Falling Mortgage Rates
Nicole Friedman of The Wall Street Journal reports that falling mortgage rates boosted home-shopping activity in January, luring the first wave of opportunistic buyers...
Controversial New Florida Law Allows Developers to Bypass Local Zoning
Patricia Mazzei of The New York Times reports that a controversial new Florida law allows developers to bypass local zoning rules if they promise...
Housing Sentiment Jumps on Mortgage Rate Outlook
Aarthi Swaminathan of MarketWatch tells his readers that a "survey-high share of consumers" polled by Fannie Mae are expecting rates to drop over the...
Warehouse Market Shows Sign of Cooling
Liz Young of The Wall Street Journal tells her readers that fourth-quarter warehouse vacancy rates are at 5.2%, up from 3.1% in the same...
Airbnb Gets Eviction Notice in New York
Amanda Hoover of Wired is reporting that thousands of Airbnbs and short-term rentals are about to be wiped off the map in New York...
How Low Can Home Sales Fall?
Your Survival Guy is watching as existing home sales hit levels last seen during the aftermath of the housing crisis.
According to the hopeful economists...
High Rates Squeezing Home Sales
Nicole Friedman of The Wall Street Journal report home sales fell in September to the lowest rate in 13 years, showing the corner of...
Home Sales on Track for Slowest Year Since 2008
Nicole Friedman of The Wall Street Journal tells us that the residential real-estate market is being hindered by mortgage rates, limited inventory. She writes:
The highest mortgage...
Biden Making Homeownership Harder for Americans
At Heritage.org, economist Stephen Moore explains how Joe Biden is making homeownership more difficult for Americans. He writes:
In boasting about “Bidenomics” two weeks ago in...
The Quick Death of the Local Mall
Prices for mall real estate peaked in 2016, and since then, some low-end malls have watched their values drop "at least 50% and in...