Source: The Real Deal — Facebook Marketplace is becoming a less friendly hunting ground for real estate agents selling properties via social media. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced late last month a policy change to the social media site’s virtual...
Source: Yahoo! Finance — More than 1.4 million households are facing the prospect of interest rate rises when they renew their fixed-rate mortgages this year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The majority of fixed-rate mortgages in the UK...
Source: Grand Forks Herald — GRAND FORKS — With prices up, sales down, lower inventory and interest rates doubling in the last year, times have slowed on the local real estate front. Winter is historically a slower time for home sales in the northern states, so...
Source: Yahoo! — Homebuyers hoping for a better climate in 2023 have longer to wait, as they now face the highest mortgage rates to start a new year since 2002. However, analysts remain hopeful that today’s volatile rates will stabilize in the coming months....
Source: Morning Star — The real-estate sector is in crisis amid the housing downturn. Expect more pain to come before things start to normalize, one housing chief says The real-estate sector is in crisis amid the housing downturn. Expect more pain to come...
Source: UBS — An illiquid, indivisible bulk asset with high transaction costs, residential real estate presents complications for investors whose focus is wealth-accumulation. But that doesn’t mean you should discount housing as a key part of your investment...