Single-family housing starts in November were at a rate of 1.01 million, according to new data from the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 6.4% above the revised October figure of 950,000. Privately-owned housing starts in...
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes held steady this month, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). The latest HMI reading of 46 was unchanged from November; any number over...
The ladies of “The View” took a break from their chronic Trump bashing to turn their ire against a new real estate platform that allows homebuyers to know how their prospective neighbors may have voted. Entertainment Weekly reports that Monday’s episode featured...
November home sales were up 6.3% year-over-year, according to new data from RE/MAX LLC, a division of RE/MAX Holdings Inc. (NYSE: RMAX). November marked the seventh time during 2024 that a month’s home sales topped its 2023 counterpart. However, on a month-over-month...
Homebuyers looking for neighbors who share their political views have a new tool to find a community of like-minded voters. Axios reports the tech start-up Oyssey has soft-launched a real estate platform that allows buyers to view block-by-block consumer and political...
A slippery definition of “reopening,” an unlikely grant and a merger’s messy failure. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Dec. 9-13. Miss: An Unsettled Settlement. The US Department of Justice (DOJ)...