Payrolls Soar By 339K, Blowing Away Highest Estimate, Even As People Employed Tumble By 310K Sending Unemployment Rate Higher With consensus...
Investor Home Purchases Collapse Most On Record Residential real estate brokerage firm Redfin released new data that revealed a record-breaking...
Markets in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and North Carolina are the strongest for sellers, while the place to buy might be in the West and the Rust...
On Tuesday the FHFA House Price Index hit an all-time high. Total active listings are still near all-time lows and demand has stabilized.
There's an old adage of Wall Street, which says: "never short a dull market." And while AI is getting all the press these days, the oil...
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FEMA's Risk Rating 2.0 means thousands of homeowners in Miami-Dade will eventually see an average premium increase of $1,500. And it likely isn't enough...
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Two Key Housing Themes: Low Inventory and Few Distressed Sales Brief excerpt: Every housing cycle is different. One...
- by New Deal democratThe last of the monthly updates for new home construction, new home sales, was reported this morning. And it continued the...
Last month, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates again, the ninth consecutive increase since the Fed began raising rates in ... Read more
The best way to fight inflation and get lower mortgage rates is to get more apartment units finished and so far this has been far too...
With housing affordability at an all-time low, supply is going to have to come from baby boomers, who are less sensitive to mortgage rates or don't...
Total debt balances grew by $148 billion in the first quarter of 2023, a modest increase after 2022’s record growth. Mortgages, the largest form of household...
From the seasonal bottom on April 14 to now — a whole month — total active inventory has only grown by 14,913.
A Third Of US Home Prices Fall In First Quarter As Shelter Costs Peak Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius told clients he views today's...
The massive inflation and double-digit mortgage rates of the 1970s and early 1980s seem to haunt the Federal Reserve.
In some pockets of America, the pandemic-spurred housing craze never left. Open house lines are out the door, buyers pay tens of thousands over ask, and...
It has long been held that owning homes and apartments has been one of the better inflation-sensitive assets for managing through periods of higher inflation....
Inventory fell last week, with total active listings down by 2,545, and new listing data also falling week to week.
The headline jobs data beat estimates, but we did have 149,000 negative revisions to the previous month's data.
Mortgage affordability has improved following rate drops and cooling prices, but is still far off from historic affordability levels. There is no clear...
Condos were picked as an affordability favorite early on in the pandemic, with more availability at competitively lower prices (versus urban single family...
“The game of musical chairs that is the housing market needs more chairs," said Mark Fleming, chief economist at First American Financial Corporatio...
As the mainstream focuses on negative developments, such as the Fed's latest utterings and the implosion of subsets of the commercial real estate (CRE)...
Buying a home is likely to be the biggest financial decision you will ever make. As a result, such a decision requires careful consideration of your...
Key Points The year 2022 was a brutal one for companies in the tech sector. When tech stocks crash, investors ... Read more
Hamptons Luxury-Home Prices Soar On "Very Strong" Demand, Limited Inventory Despite the slowest growth in US home prices in ten years and...
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...
Futures Violently Unchanged As Busiest Week Of Earnings Season Begins In what is shaping up as yet another unchanged open, futures are set...