A new NAR leader, a jaw-dropping data revision and more Britons buying homes. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the Hits and Misses for the week of Aug. 19-23. Miss: Wright or Wrong, Part 1. Nine months after the National Association of Realtors...
A total of 1,482 home sales were recorded in Maine during July, up by 10.93% from one year earlier, according to data from the Maine Association of Realtors. The $399,250 median sales price in July was a 5.07% uptick from the $380,000 in July 2023. Paul McKee, the...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against RealPage Inc., the Richardson, Texas-based property management software company, claiming it masterminded an “unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment...
Sales of new single-family houses in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 739,000, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This marked a 10.6% spike from the revised June rate of...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has given his clearest signal that central bank is ready to cut interest rates in September. In a speech delivered today at an economic symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,...
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD) has announced plans to open over 200 new restaurants across the UK over the next four years, a $1.3 billion investment with the goal to create over 24,000 jobs. The new initiative is part of the “McDonald’s at 50” endeavor that highlights...
