Lumber prices have gone sideways in the past few months as investors focus on the housing market and the falling commodities market. Lumber was trading...
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in February A brief excerpt: Every month I track about 40 local...
Weekly housing inventory is finally showing some signs of life. Active listings rose by 8,546 and new listing data also grew.
Recently, our small-cap team listened to Barrenjoey Capital’s chief economist, Jo Masters, discuss the prospects for the Australian economy. In brief,...
Millennials Are Slowest Generation To Hit 50% Homeownership; Rest Of Generation Fears Forever Renters The millennial generation has finally...
We have 2.6 months of housing inventory in the U.S. after coming off the single biggest home-sales crash year in history.
What is the best news for mortgage rates long-term? It might seem counter-intuitive, but it’s getting more supply of apartments.
The Housing Bubble: Owners Trapped By Low-Rate Mortgages, Buyers Thwarted By High-Rate Mortgages Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds...
- by New Deal democratFor the past few months, I’ve noted that new home sales, which while very volatile frequently are the first metric to signal...
S&P Futures Hit 2 Month High: 4,200 Looms As Record Bearish Sentiment Leads To Another Meltup We have said previously on more than one...
Futures Flat In Quiet Session As Attention Turns To Company Earnings US stock futures are off to a muted start to the week as investor focus...
It’s been a very solid start to the year for the FTSE 100, the London Stock Exchange’s benchmark index, which has advanced… The post 3 FTSE...
Active housing inventory fell 5,383 last week and new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023.
Looking at the latest data from the National Association of Realtors Research Group, here's what the share of homebuyers looks like today.
Mortgage rates started last week at 6.44% and fell to a low of 6.16%, then ended the week at 6.34%. Expect another volatile pricing week.
Multi-Tenant Apartment Building Sales Drop 74%, The Most Since 2008 Thanks to higher interest rates, turmoil at regional banks, and slowing...
If we had entrenched inflation, the 10-year yield would be well north of 5.25% today. Instead, it's been hard for it to stay above 4%.
Here's Where Millennials Are Buying The Most Expensive Homes While we all sit back and wait for the housing market to wreck, likely led by...
Skyrocketing real estate prices in Hawaii may finally be catching up with the state.
Last week's housing inventory data shows we still haven't seen the traditional spring increase in inventory.
A SmartAsset report found that Austin saw by far the biggest home price growth in the last 25 years.
Exodus Trend Persists: Homebuyers Unfazed By High Mortgage Rates Leave Expensive Cities A new report from real estate brokerage Redfin indicates...
The pandemic has seen more and more full-time employees working fully remotely – and seeking out cheaper, warmer places in which to do so. Property price...
We need to understand the credit channels in the U.S. today and why they’re so different than the period of 2002-2008.
Realtor.com pins the best week to put a home on the market this spring.
The Swedish krona has done well in the past few weeks even as the country’s economic crisis continued. The USD/SEK exchange rate dropped to a low...
What Is the Commercial Paper Funding Facility?The commercial paper funding facility is the Federal Reserve’s stopgap tool aimed at maintaining liquidity...
Millennials Dominate Insolvencies In Canada As Credit Card, Student Loan And Other Debts Pile Up As US millennials distinguish themselves...
The panel I am on is shifting its topic a bit to include some discussion of the latest crisis. Although this is more topical, it is...
If the mortgage market wasn’t so stressed, mortgage rates should be at 5.99% today. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.