U.S. Housing Market

Industrial real estate market sees another strong quarter

Industrial real estate market sees another strong quarter

Source: Delaware Business Now --- A second quarter report from the commercial real estate firm Newmark detected no signs of a slowdown in the industrial real estate market. Activity in the Greater Philadelphia industrial market, southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New...

Will Housing Prices Flatten — or Collapse?

Will Housing Prices Flatten — or Collapse?

Source: The Washington Post ---  Home price appreciation is slowing fast across the country under the weight of higher mortgage rates, with typical property values even falling month-over-month in about a fifth of major metro areas in July. Clearly, the slowdown is...

Tough market: Rising mortgage rates making home buying harder

Tough market: Rising mortgage rates making home buying harder

Source: Housing Wire --- The Rio Grande Valley was already struggling with housing affordability, and now higher mortgage interest rates are making it worse. That’s according to a new study from the Texas Real Estate Research Center of Texas A&M University, which...

US real estate market may be cooling, depending on who you ask

US real estate market may be cooling, depending on who you ask

Source: ABC News --- Just a few months ago, the real estate market was favorable to people selling homes. The amount of buyers was increasing, the number of listings were down and interest rates were dropping, it seemed, across the country. Now, brokers are saying the...

Guess How Many of Us Hope for a Housing Crash

Guess How Many of Us Hope for a Housing Crash

Source: The Street --- With home prices and mortgage rates soaring, it would seem that something has to give. So it may not surprise you to learn that 78% of Americans expect a housing-market crash, according to a study by Consumer Affairs, a consumer information...

Fair Housing: Problem Ran Deeper than Redlining

Fair Housing: Problem Ran Deeper than Redlining

Source: Florida Realtors ---  Discrimination tends to find loopholes. In the 1960s, Blacks bought homes using a land contract – but sellers held the deed and could evict for one missed payment. CHICAGO – If Robert York was ever bone tired, he didn’t show it. After...