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Homebuilder sentiment tumbles in September for ninth straight month
Source: Fox Business --- Confidence among builders in the U.S. housing market plunged more than expected in September to the lowest level since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as painfully high inflation and rising borrowing costs forced potential buyers to...
Home-Flipper Opendoor Hit With Losses in Echo of Zillow Collapse
Source: Bloomberg --- Company lost money on 42% of its August resales after it failed to anticipate slide in housing demand. The US housing market’s sharp downturn has been bad for builders, flippers and almost anyone who had plans to sell a home when rising mortgage...
Housing inventory may not rebound for some time, despite slowing market
Source: Washington Business Journals --- Inventory has been a closely-watched metric of the U.S. housing market during, and leading up to, the Covid-19 pandemic.
US housing market in ‘deep recession’ as homebuilder confidence tanks: economist
Source: NY Post --- The US housing market is in the midst of a “deep recession” that could put pressure on the Federal Reserve to ease up on interest rate hikes, a prominent economist warned on Monday. Homebuilder confidence declined for the ninth straight month in...
Analysis-China’s mortgage boycott quietly regroups as construction idles
Source: Yahoo Finance --- BEIJING (Reuters) - Two months since many Chinese homebuyers stopped repaying mortgages to protest stalled construction on their properties, a lack of progress at more sites now threatens to intensify the boycott, despite assurances from...
Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 75 basis points for third straight month
Source: Fox Business --- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points for the third straight month as it tries to bring scorching-hot inflation under control, a move that threatens to slow U.S. economic growth and exacerbate...
