Housing

The math is clear: you might pay a little less per month, but you won’t make a serious dent in your debt for years....

Better now, worse later?

While New York City is on the cusp of electing a mayor who adores the thoroughly discredited policy of rent control, another American city is poised to blaze

That’s the oldest point on record and 10 years higher than it was as recently as 2010....

This map shows how many gold bars it takes to buy a median-priced house in each U.S. state, in case you ever wondered.

Sales of newly built homes jumped far more than expected in August, even though mortgage rates didn't come down until September.

A new tax program is leading some developers to change their construction plans.

This housing market is frozen, weird, and a nightmare for homebuilders....

More people are asking to spend the night before making an offer. ‘You should try it before you buy it.’

In many large U.S. cities, the typical household can afford to rent only a space smaller than a studio apartment.

The two companies have been under government conservatorship since 2008.

With mortgage rates near 7%, buyers are holding back and sellers are staying put — leaving the housing market frozen....

High interest rates and prices are deterring individual buyers, leaving an opening for firms to snap up single-family properties.

Depending where you live, it could be a good time to buy a home

Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data.

At no other point on record have sellers outnumbered buyers this much. Home prices will likely fall as a result.

Homeowners eager to sell may have to wait a while before a buyer comes along. As of April, the U.S. housing market had nearly 34% more sellers than buyers shopping for a home, according to an analysis by Redfin.

It’s complicated.

This visualization maps the annual income required to buy a typical three-bedroom home in every U.S. state.

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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