The problem with new listings declining now is what will happen if mortgage rates make a solid push lower. The post Is housing inventory growth really...
Visualizing All The Latest Major Layoffs At US Corporations Hiring freezes and layoffs are becoming more common in 2022, as U.S. businesses...
Some More Good Inflation News: Owner-Equivalent Rents Are About To Peak It was seven months ago today, when looking at the latest real-time...
It may not be unexpected, but the trend is unmistakable and growing.
US Housing Inventory Grows At Record Pace As Buyers Slow Down; Shiller Warns Of 'Heightened Risks' The number of houses sitting on the market...
Pulling Forward Growth No Longer An Option Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Pulling forward growth over the last decade...
Pulling forward growth over the last decade remains the Federal Reserve's primary tool for keeping financial markets stable while economic growth rates...
On the same day, the BLS revealed that we've recovered all the jobs lost to COVID-19 and I am raising my sixth recession red flag. The...
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey— Mortgage applications increased 1.2 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage...
SF Bay Area Housing Prices Suffer Largest One-Month Drop On Record Thanks to a combination of rising interest rates and economic uncertainty,...
* China President Xi warns Biden on interference with Taiwan * Biden and China President Xi, after call, plan to meet in person * China signals...
After raising rates by 75 bps on Wednesday, the question is whether the Fed will keep aggressively hiking rates if the economic data worsens. The post...
The real estate market frenzy is over, we're seeing more normal patterns. Here's what to expect with inventory and prices into early 2023. The post Mike...
Because housing is sensitive to changes in borrowing costs, it can tell policymakers and consumers a lot about whether the Fed’s plan is working.
Greenwich Housing Market "Is Returning To Earth" Greenwich, an affluent town on Connecticut's coast about an hour from New York City, may...
The retail housing market data, released by Redfin at the end of June, shows the median asking price for newly listed homes for sale in the...
Housing Market Peaks: Home Prices Finally Drop From All-Time Highs If it was the Biden admin's intention to crush the housing market (with...
Over the last 2.5 years of this housing market, it wasn’t housing deflation we needed to worry about, but housing inflation. The post With home sales...
After two years of low interest rates and a seller's market, the answer may surprise you.
And the Trudeau government has no convincing plan to address the problem The threshold has been crossed. Canada’s largest bank, RBC Financial Group,...
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in JuneA brief excerpt: We are seeing a significant change in inventory,...
%%excerpt%% The loan quality of mortgage pools backing private-label securitization deals has remained solid this year through the end of June, even as...
With the pandemic, there was a surge in 2nd home buying.I'm looking at data for some second home markets - and I'm tracking those markets to...
The employment report released last Friday was better than expected but the response by bulls and bears alike was exactly as expected. Both found things...
Housing Crisis Worsens As Affordability Reaches Record Low Just as we warned back in March, housing affordability, as measured by Goldman...
What does it mean to get a positive job report with all the talk about a recession? Let's look at the data in relation to recession...
The US economy gained more jobs than expected in June, although it was still a decline from May. An economist explains what the new numbers mean.
What’s the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Want...
David Stockman On Why The Great Reckoning Has Begun Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, Well, that should have been a wake-up...
People who say credit will get so tight that we're headed to 2008 levels show they've never read the MBA's mortgage credit availability index. The post...