San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection is investigating whether a start-up company has violated housing code rules by setting up so-called “sleeping pods” as a residential alternative to traditional rental housing. Brownstone Shared Housing provides...
The absence of affordable homeownership opportunities worsened during the third quarter, according to new data from ATTOM. Increasing home prices and mortgage rates have resulted in a new environment where the typical portion of average wages nationwide required for...
Pending home sales in August were down 7.1% from July and down 18.7% from August 2022, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The trade group’s Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings,...
Would you pay roughly $42,000 to live in a train caboose in the Georgia woods? If that tickles your fancy, we have just the property for you. Yes, a train caboose built in 1976 is being offered as a riverfront residential property on an acre of land in Dahlonega,...
The past decade has seen increasingly tight housing markets due to strong demand and limited supply. Since the Great Recession, the U.S. has not built enough housing to keep pace with demand created by job and population growth, leading to historically low vacancy...
Closing costs and monthly mortgage payments spiked last year while Black and Hispanic buyers faced higher levels of denial on home loans, according to the new report “Data Point: 2022 Mortgage Market Activity and Trends,” published by the Consumer Financial Protection...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of May 11-15
