Elevated mortgage rates and increased construction costs coupled with onerous regulatory costs resulted housing affordability remaining near its lowest level in more than a decade during the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the National Association of Home...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: If you have a gas stove or if you want to purchase that type of appliance, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has good news for you – its newly published energy-efficiency standards gave a thumbs up to 97% of the gas stoves now on the market. With...
A super-tall apartment complex for Oklahoma City, bad news for California’s housing market and a historic lovers’ rendezvous for sale. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the Hits and Misses for the week of Dec. 18-22. Hit: Thinking Big....
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes inched up by three points to 37 in December, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) Housing Market Index (HMI). This uptick ends a four-month decline for...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Several states have already passed laws or are planning to enact new mandates that would prohibit the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035 as a means of saving the planet from being destroyed by climate change. “Our cars shouldn’t...
Small Mortgages Fall Below 3% of Originations, Exposing Rural Lending Gap
