Housing

Inflation, zoning laws, and neighborhood lobby groups all work to make affordable housing a distant dream for most Americans. Are subsidized housing projects and inclusionary zoning mandates the answer, or can the market provide a solution?

Property taxes provide 18% of county revenue, 17% of city/town revenue, and 50%-60% of school district funding.

Sales of existing homes rose 4.2%, reflecting an increase in shopping activity and in the number of homes for sale since the start of the year.

Just a few years after Covid sparked a mass exodus from metro areas, population growth in US cities is climbing again — largely due to immigration....

A Palo Alto listing comes with an unusual sales pitch.

One tenant got two months free, $600 credit for signing lease as deals abound

The result of the government’s expansion into the subprime mortgage market was that by the time of the financial crisis, more than half of all mortgages in the United States were subprime or otherwise low-quality mortgages.

Existing home sales fell last year to the lowest level since 1995 when the US population was 23% smaller, the National Association of Realtors said.

Some investors are betting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be privatized.

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Building more 15-minute neighborhoods would cut pollution and conserve nature. But do Americans want to live in them? See how walkable your neighborhood is.

Here's why Americans are nearly middle-aged before they become homeowners.

Residents of Barcelona are saying no más to mass tourism, with most Airbnbs in the city likely run by multi-property professionals....

When Julie Johnson and her husband decided to purchase their own home, they turned to an unexpected place: Facebook Marketplace.

Move can significantly lower upfront expenses for renters in city with one of the world’s highest costs of living

Wasn’t the Fed supposed to fix this?

A record number of Americans used an inheritance to help finance a down payment on their first home in 2024.

First-time homebuyers still have to compete for a small pool of houses.

Goldman Sachs’s old headquarters in NYC is now an apartment building.

An apartment building with a Costco on the ground floor is coming to LA thanks to housing construction reform.

The American dream of owning a home is slipping away for many, an issue that entrepreneur John Hope Bryant writes can be addressed with 40-year mortgages.

Surging costs for housing and other expenses are prompting baby boomers to take on roommates.

The DOJ is suing property management tool RealPage accusing it of enabling collusion among landlords.

This new dog-eat-dog system for brokers could push many of the “mediocre” ones to leave the industry.

In this essay, we trace the path of the recession from its origins in the housing market bubble to the policies offered to cure the aftermath.

When the 2008 economic crisis hit, mainstream economists scratched their heads attempting to make sense of the devastation. Austrian economists had been issuing warnings about the impending crash for years.

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