Ultimately, as long as buyers are able to keep up with their regular monthly payments, fewer people making extra mortgage payments probably isn’t going to have a massive impact on the broader housing ...
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Big landlords jump into the homebuilding as demand for single-family rentals surges
Jake and Stephanie Murphy are moving into a new single-family rental home built by American Homes 4 Rent. Diana Olick | CNBC Real Estate Correspondent As demand for single-family rental homes surges, ...
Softer Housing Sales Are Hammering Demand for Lumber
Inflation and rising mortgage costs are putting a dent in the housing market, which is hurting lumber demand. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Text size You can almost hear the sound of falling lumb...
I put $200K toward a down payment for a condo unit with my boyfriend. He is on the title, but not on the mortgage. How do I protect my equity investment now?
Dear Quentin, I recently sold my apartment and put the equity earned (over $200,000) toward a new condo unit I own with my partner. My partner — we are not married — is on title, but not on the mortga...
Mortgage demand falls to the lowest level in 22 years
Mortgage rates are back on the upswing, after a brief decline in May, and the housing market is still suffering from a lack of listings. As a result, mortgage demand continues to drop. Total mortgage ...
‘Yellowstone’ boom pits lifetime Montana residents against wealthy newcomers
“Yellowstone” has become one of the hottest shows streaming. Filmed on location in the West, much of it in Montana, the scripted drama tells the story of a modern day ranch owner John Dutt...
Home affordability has ‘collapsed’ in 2022. What to expect next, according to BofA
The double whammy of surging mortgage rates and skyrocketing home prices has led to “collapsed” housing affordability in America, according to Chris Flanagan’s team at BofA Global Research. The situat...
What Retail Real Estate Owners Are Doing To Be Sustainable And Why It Matters
Solar panels on the roof of Kimco Realty’s Jericho Commons, a shopping mall in Jericho, NY Kimco Realty According to the United Nation’s 2021 Global Status Report for Building and Construction, ...
Housing wealth gains record $1.2 trillion, but signs suggest market is cooling
Houses in Hercules, California, US, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Homebuyers are facing a worsening affordability situation with mortgage rates hovering around the highest levels in more than a decade. Da...
These Mortgage-Backed Securities Offer Hefty Yields, Mild Risk
Text size Bonds from Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac are more attractive than Treasuries or corporates. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Move over TINA, it’s time for TARA. The latter stands for “T...
Forget Caesars, MGM, Consider This Las Vegas Strip Stock
Las Vegas offers the promise of getting rich. In most cases, that’s a false promise as the house usually wins, but you can make money on Sin City without throwing any dice, playing cards, or tak...
AlUla In Saudi Arabia To House Notable Film Studio Boosting The Region’s Real Estate Sector
CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 21: Stephen Strachan, guest, Wayne Borg, Zeinab Abu Alsamh and Matt Rhodes … [+] attend the Film AlUla lunch during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at the America...
Small-cap growth stocks are at their lowest P/E valuation in at least 24 years.
Growth stocks typically trade at premium prices. But in this market, rising interest rates have turned small-cap growth stocks into a bargain group. This may be a beautiful setup for long-term investo...
Mortgage rates rise sharply after three weeks of easing
A “For Sale” sign outside a house in Crockett, California, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates rose sharply this week, after pulling back ...
Mortgage demand falls to lowest level since 2018, even as interest rates ease
A single family home is shown for sale in Encinitas, California. Mike Blake | Reuters Mortgage demand slipped to the lowest level since December 2018, even after rates declined slightly last week. App...
‘I am a 53-year-old single man with very little savings’: I want to take out a 30-year mortgage, but pay it off in 7 years. Is that possible?
I am a 53-year-old single man with very little in savings. I paid off all my credit-card debt a couple of years ago. I have now decided to purchase a home. My rent has increased to the point where it ...
U.S. stocks end lower Tuesday as Biden, Powell meet on inflation; Dow, S&P eke out gains in May
U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday, the final session of May, as Treasury yields pushed higher following last week’s equity market bounce after a historic string of weekly losses. The Dow Jones Industri...
Salesforce stock rallies following raised outlook, with stronger dollar seen as only major headwind
Salesforce Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Tuesday after the cloud-based customer-relationship-management company said business remained strong amid the current rocky economic landscape an...
Home prices surged in March as interest rates also rose: S&P Case-Shiller
A sold sign sits outside a home. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Rising mortgage rates did not slow down rising home prices in March. Nationally, home prices were 20.6% higher than they were in March 2021, accor...
U.S. home prices rise at new record rate, Case-Shiller shows
The numbers: U.S. home prices rose again in March even as higher mortgage rates began to bite, leaving prices at all-time highs. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city price index was up a record ...
‘Should we wait to see how the market plays out?’ I want to purchase a rental home. Is this a good time?
Dear MarketWatch, Is it a good time to buy an investment home to rent out, or should we wait off on it? We live in Arizona, but the home I’d be buying is located in El Paso, Texas. It would involve ta...
Salesforce earnings expected to serve as business-spending bellwether amid economic uncertainty
Salesforce Inc. is expected to have a much more subdued earnings report in the coming week as fear of a recession and inflation, as well as COVID shutdowns in China and the war in Ukraine, are prompti...
Beach house inventory is up, prices are down
The rental market in the Hamptons is facing an unexpected chill this summer. After two years of strong demand and soaring prices, the supply of rentals in the Hamptons is surging, leading to a wave of...
Lumber Prices Slump With Rising Interest Rates
Lumber prices have come crashing down in a new sign of how rising interest rates are deflating markets that boomed during the pandemic. Wood prices were a leading indicator of the supply-chain problem...
‘I’m being taken advantage of by my own husband’: I pay all the bills and gave the down payment for our home, and all he does is buy stuff and contribute to his 401(k)
I’m being taken advantage of by my own husband. I have been married for almost 10 years. When my husband and I were first married, he convinced me to stop working after the first year or so, which I r...