The national housing market may be losing momentum, but buyers aren’t disappearing everywhere. They are concentrating. New Realtor.com Economic Research released Tuesday shows that the country’s most competitive housing markets remain clustered almost...
There is a strange contradiction developing in the mortgage market right now, and I think we need to be careful about how we talk about it. By most broad measures, the mortgage system is still in pretty good shape. There is no national foreclosure crisis, there is no...
Every month, the housing industry gets another collection of national numbers. Home prices are up. Sales are down. Inventory is improving. Affordability is getting worse. Builder confidence moved. Mortgage applications changed. We report those numbers because they...
The late-summer housing market is giving buyers something they have spent much of the past several years waiting for: leverage. Whether enough buyers can afford to use it is another question. New listings rose 0.4% from the previous week during the four weeks ending...
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh delivered a difficult message for the housing industry Friday: The Fed sees the strain in housing, but that weakness is not enough to shift its attention away from inflation. Speaking at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s...
Barings Buys $66.2 Million Orange County Retail Center as Grocery-Anchored …
