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Investor Who Called Housing Top and Bottom Says It’s Time to Sell
(Bloomberg) — Bond manager Mark Kiesel sold his California home in 2006, when he presciently predicted the housing bubble would pop. He bought again in 2012, after U.S. prices fell more than 30%...
The odds of a home price decline hitting your local housing market, as told by one interactive chart
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has made it clear: The central bank is done sitting on the sidelines as inflation chips away at the value of the dollar. The plan? Put upward pressure on interest rates until p...
Another housing bubble? ‘We’re skating close to one,’ says Realtor.com economist
This might be the hottest housing market ever recorded. Over the past 12 months, U.S. home prices are up a staggering 19.2%. For comparison, in the years leading into the 2008 housing bust, the bigges...
We’re in a housing market where nobody wants to sell, and it could get worse from here
For months, the U.S. housing market has been plagued by a historically low inventory of homes for sale, which has increased competition and driven up prices to record highs. The housing market finally...
Singapore Properties Near Lee Kuan Yew’s Residence Up For Sale As Housing Sales Jump
The colonial era mansion in the Orchard Road shopping belt is up for sale with a price tag of $220 … [+] million. Courtesy of CBRE Two residential sites near the former home of the late Singapor...
Home Prices Surged to a Record as Sales Fell. What’s Cooling the Hot Housing Market.
Text size The rising cost of buying a home has weighed on buyers as mortgage rates have increased. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Existing-home sales fell in March fell as home prices climbed to their high...
Kaiser Permanente Is Investing $400 Million To Create More Affordable Housing
Kaiser Permanente is one of the country’s largest healthcare organizations, well known for its integrated care networks, advanced medical services, commitment to cutting-edge healthcare technology, an...
4 housing market predictions for 2022, from economists and real estate pros
We asked home and mortgage experts and economists what they predict will happen this spring. Getty Images/iStockphoto We asked home and mortgage experts and economists what they predict will happen in...
Rhode Island lawmakers introduce ‘green coin’ in housing bill
Lawmakers in Rhode Island are looking at crypto tokens as part of a comprehensive green housing bill that would tackle both the climate crisis and housing shortage in the state. Introduced last week,...
Is Homeownership Becoming A Thing Of The Past? What The Changing Housing Market Could Mean For Investors
For decades, homeownership has been a quintessential part of the American dream. Owning a home can boost your net worth since homeowners have a net worth 40 times greater than non-homeowners, accordin...
Homebuilder sentiment drops for fourth straight month
A contractor uses a hammer while working on townhouse under construction at the PulteGroup Metro housing development in Milpitas, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sharply risin...
Decade-High Mortgage Rates Pose Threat to Spring Housing Market
U.S. housing sales are heating up again this spring, but the highest mortgage rates in more than a decade threaten to cool the sales pace that has gripped the market for nearly two years. Home sales r...
More sellers are cutting home prices as housing market demand begins to soften
Is the housing market beginning to feel the effects of the end of “team transitory”? Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell abandoned his “transitory” inflation narrative months ago and has s...
How An Aussie From The Housing Projects Became A Billionaire Making Gear For Next Gen Spielbergs
Blackmagic Design’s Grant Petty turned the chip on his shoulder about Hollywood’s tech elite into a one of the most innovative manufacturers of inexpensive filmmaking equipment. Thanks to the pandemic...
The housing market just hit a level not seen since 2007
The financial sting of soaring home prices—up 32.6% over the past two years—was lessened, to a degree, by historically low mortgage rates during the pandemic. Even as prices soared, many buyers’...
The housing market is running hot. Can the Fed cool it before it crashes?
When the “Bond King” Bill Gross sat down recently with Barry Ritholtz for an episode of “The Big Picture” podcast, the billionaire investor and PIMCO founder took a pretty skeptical view of who might ...
Mortgage rate trap is making the housing market worse
One big factor that helped numerous homeowners save money is ultimately hurting homebuyers. Call it the interest rate trap. Years of historically low rates, especially in the last two years, have help...
US mortgage interest rates hit 5%, good news for housing market — Quartz
After falling to historic lows last year, mortgage rates are rising sharply. On April 5, they hit their highest point in more than a decade with the average US interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate m...
It Is Not Too Late For Cincinnati To Adopt Housing Density Measures
Ohio, Cincinnati, Mount Adams Historic Neighborhood, Brick Townhouses, Woman Power Walking, . (Photo … [+] by: Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via ...
Why Is California’s Department of Fair Housing and Employment Harassing Activision and Tesla?
From when Elon Musk was very young he “plotted an escape from his surroundings and dreamed of a place that would allow his personality and dreams to flourish.” Those are the words of Ashlee Vance, fro...
Dallas Fed sees signs of a housing bubble
A housing bubble could be brewing, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as home prices “are again becoming unhinged from fundamentals.” The housing market has been showing signs of exubera...
My wife and I have $750,000 in savings and earn over $144,000 a year. Can we afford to spend $5,000 per month on housing?
Financial advisers recommend spending no more than 30% of take-home pay on housing. I have always lived by this rule and now have $750,000 in cash savings. But now I need to make a big move. Is there ...
Housing Market Faces a World of Pain
Several ominous signs face the housing market. First, the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage soared to a three-year high of 4.67% in the week ended March 31, according to housing agency Freddie Mac. ...
Bricktrade: The Solution to the Global Housing Shortage
Place/Date: – March 30th, 2022 at 4:23 pm UTC · 4 min read Source: Bricktrade Photo: Bricktrade It is not a surprise that inadequate housing has reached a critical point around the world. Accord...
Housing Crisis: Why 40-Year Mortgages Might Help Delinquent Borrowers
Text size Illustration by Laurent Duvoux About the author: Patrick Harker is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Covid-19 pandemic is not over. But many of the pande...