Investors might have slowed their home purchases as Washington scrutinized their industry. But they remain a steady force in the housing market, a new analysis from the Realtor.com® economics team has found.... Read more »
Surging mortgage rates chilled the housing market in September, forcing sellers to slash prices at historic levels to revive slipping demand. Nationally, the share of listings with price cuts reached 20.8%, up... Read more »
When Rebecca Obeng began hunting for a new job after finishing medical training in Chicago, she didn’t expect to end up in Cleveland. Obeng, who’s originally from Ghana, went to medical school... Read more »
Data centers are increasingly popping up next to American homes, and they’re changing neighborhoods in the process. The number of large data centers over 50 megawatts has increased sevenfold from 2018, and... Read more »
The Federal Reserve of Minneapolis has proposed a new way of measuring homeownership that would change the current view of the housing landscape. In a paper released earlier this month, researchers suggested... Read more »
The U.S. homeownership rate remains at a plateau, holding at 65.0% in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest data from the the Housing Vacancy Survey. The homeownership rate... Read more »
Sales of new-construction homes bumped up a bit in June, as median sales prices slid and gave buyers an affordability boost. Contract signings for newly built homes hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of... Read more »
Population growth might be slowing, and more apartments and homes are going unsold and unoccupied. But that doesn’t mean the nation’s affordability challenges are getting better. Depressed demand and harsh affordability challenges... Read more »
Virginia is looking to ease restrictions on manufactured housing, part of a bid by Gov. Abigail Spanberger to bring down housing costs. Spanberger signed half a dozen bills Tuesday promising to bring... Read more »
If you’re looking for a newly built home in the city, there are typically fewer options than in the suburbs. Suburban building dominates the current market for new homes, with only 10%... Read more »