Home prices in New York State soared in October as home sales continued to decline. According to data from the New York State Association of Realtors, the median price of a home statewide rose 11% last month to $415,000, up from $374,000 in October 2023. This marked...
Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has taken aim at the surplus of vacant office properties allocated to federal agencies. The DOGE channel on X ran headline from the Washington Times that announced: “Nearly 90% of feds’ office in D.C. going to...
Mortgage rates were on the rise again in the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey published by Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC). The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.84% as of Nov. 21, up from last week when it averaged 6.78%. A year ago at this time, it averaged...
Three new data reports offer greater insight regarding the state of today’s rental housing market. Rents have outpaced wages in 44 of the 50 largest metros since 2019, according to data from Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z, ZG). Over the last five years, U.S. rents have grown...
There was good news and not-good news out of Florida’s housing market, with an increase in active listings during May that was seesawed with a decline in closed sales. According to new data from Florida Realtors, the state recorded a total of 26,396 closed sales...
Fans of Joni Mitchell will remember this chorus of her classic tune “Big Yellow Taxi”: Don’t it always seem to go / That you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone? / They paved paradise, put up a parking lot. The message of that golden oldie...
