Rhode Island’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund is launching a $1 million pilot program to expand the availability of new income-restricted homes. According to the Providence Journal, the new “Turnkey Program” offers a direct subsidy to developers in exchange for an...
The debate over government involvement in the real estate industry is not new, but it has taken on renewed urgency as the housing crisis deepens across the United States. Vice President Kamala Harris recently pledged to build 3 million new homes if elected President....
Kamala Harris’ housing plans, a new era in real estate commissions and a new assault on phony online reviews. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the Hits and Misses for the week of Aug. 12-16. Miss: Thus Spoke Kamala. After weeks of silence on what...
The housing market recorded its first month-over-month decline in the median sales price this year, according to data published by RE/MAX LLC, a subsidiary of RE/MAX Holdings (NYSE: RMAX). Across the 51 metro areas surveyed for its report, RE/MAX found the median...
Million-dollar homes have become more commonplace than ever before, as new data from Redfin (NASDAQ:RDFN) determined nearly one in 10 (8.5%) homes are worth $1 million or more, a record high. The current figure is up 7.6% year-over-year and more than double the 4%...
Single-family housing starts in July were at a rate of 851,000, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This marked a 14.1% drop from the revised June figure of 991,000. Privately-owned housing starts in...
