Mortgage application activity continued to slow last week, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The trade group’s Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 3.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis and 4%...
Modern building codes are being credited for the roughly 50% decline in post-hurricane mortgage delinquency rates, according to a new report from the Insurance Institute of Business & Home Safety and CoreLogic. The report cited the building codes that emerged in...
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani is listing his luxury Manhattan apartment for sale at $6.5 million. The apartment is in a landmarked building designed in 1906 by architects Harde & Short. According to combined media reports, Giuliani purchased the 10th...
A total of 10,090 apartments were created in 2022 by converting other commercial real estate properties into housing, according to a new RentCafe analysis of Yardi Matrix data. Office buildings were the main source of converted apartments last year, with a 33.6% share...
A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Airbnb Inc. (NASDAQ:ABNB) against New York City over a 2022 law that the company said created an unofficial ban on short-term rentals in the city. According to a Reuters report, the company said the city’s enforcement of Local Law...
The majority of Californians would not be upset if the state relaxed its stringent environmental and land use restrictions in order to boost the short supply of available housing, according to a new poll from the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of May 11-15
