A new wrinkle in the NAR settlement, a Trump-hating Airbnb host and an upcoming 24-hour stock exchange. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Nov. 25-29. Miss: The Neverending Story? The $418 million settlement by...
Pending home sales during October marked the third consecutive month of upward movement, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The Pending Home Sales Index, NAR’s indicator of home sales based on contract signings, rose by 2.0%...
Mortgage applications were on the rise in new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) covering the week ending Nov. 22. The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 6.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one...
Sales of new single-family houses during October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000, according to estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This represented a 17.3% drop from the revised...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have donated $626,000 to the nonprofit Permanently Affordable Living Hawaii to finance the creation of five homes in a workforce housing project located on a land trust on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Kauai Now...
Home prices continued to rise but recorded a slight deceleration in gains during September compared to the previous annual gains in 2024, according to the latest data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. The US National Home Price NSA Index reported a 3.9%...
