Lumber Industry Has No Interest In New Mills As They Reap Rewards Of Record Prices The problem with the North American lumber industry is that supply...
Most experts predicted U.S. mortgage rates to be above 3% by now. We looked at bond yields across the globe to see why rates are still...
Key Events This Week: PMIs, Claims And Fed Minutes Looking forward at the coming relatively quiet week, the flash PMIs for May (Friday) will be the...
How The BoE & UK Government Stoke The Housing Market Fire Authored by Nick Corbishley via WolfStreet.com, Net mortgage borrowing in the UK hit £11.8 billion...
And Now Rents Are Soaring Too With BofA predicting that the US is facing a period of "transitory hyperinflation" as a result of soaring commodity prices...
East Bay Area Homes Selling $1 Million Over Asking Price The housing boom sparked by the Federal Reserve during the virus pandemic was built on historically...
Futures Slide, Tech Weak On Rising Inflation Fears For the second day, US equity futures traded in a narrow range, dipping during the muted Asian session...
Today's housing fundamentals -- including supply, demand and overall financial conditions -- are markedly different than in 2008. The post History Not Repeating: Why Today's Housing...
Soaring Lumber Prices Add Nearly $36,000 To The Price Of A New Home: NAHB Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Skyrocketing lumber prices that...
Housing markets in Canada have defied all predictions of doom and gloom since the onset of the pandemic. Those with a bearish housing market outlook keep...
From the pandemic’s impact on the capital markets to the 40 executives who are driving the housing economy forward, the May HousingWire Magazine digs into the...
Home Prices Soar 18% To An All Time High; A Record 58% Of Houses Sell Within Two Weeks Of Listing As if the official government data...
Oil prices under pressure Crude prices are wavering as Western Europe passes peak COVID but the situation across Asia remains concerning. A slightly stronger dollar seems...
Canada’s central bank has decided to ease back on the throttle, given that revised calculations show the economy is on a much better trajectory than policy-makers...
Investors AlleyThe Best Post-Pandemic High-Yield Dividend Turnaround Stock The “coronacrash” of February–March 2020 devastated some previously outstanding income stocks. It has been interesting to watch how...
Lumber Hasn't Had A Down Day Since March 26... And It's Sending Home Prices Soaring Even Higher Less than a week ago, we published an article...
A recent article published by CNBC showed that internet searches for the term "housing crash" had gone up 2,450% in the past month. A lot of...
The MBA revised its mortgage rates forecast nearly a percentage point higher to 5% by 2024, a sign of larger economic recovery. The post Higher mortgage...
Some folks have some creative ideas to increase inventory. I appreciate the effort to throw around ideas; we need to have more discussions like this. The...
The Global Debt Problem Authored by Alasdair Macloed via GoldMoney.com, It has been recently estimated that global debts stand at $284 trillion equivalent, representing 355% of...
US Homes "Snatched Up Right Away" As Market Drained Of Supply There has been a clear shift in market mood and sentiment ever since the COVID...
Rock-bottom interest rates that have helped prop up the Canadian economy during the pandemic are also helping fuel frenzied activity in the housing market, putting policymakers...
Bubble, Bubble, But Limited Housing Trouble... For Now By Laura Cooper, analyst and writer for Bloomberg Markets Live Global policymakers are weighing in on worrisome inflation. Well,...
Manhattan Condo Sales Increase For First Time In Four Quarters Spring is here, not just in terms of warmer temperatures but also in the Manhattan housing...
With the economy looking toward life past COVID, the focus is beginning to shift to a recovering economy, perhaps hotter than expected, driven by an excess...
Currently "For Sale" housing inventories are at record low levels. What could lead to more supply in the short term? Here are the organic reasons.First, as the...
Housing Market Euphoria Craziest In Years As Inventory Sinks To New Low The housing boom sparked by the Federal Reserve during the virus pandemic was built...
CR Note: There is quite a bit of information (and charts) in this article by Matthew Graham at MortgageNewsDaily: Who's Lying About The Housing Market?. Here...
Pending Home Sales Crash In February; Weather, Rates, Inventory Blamed Following the unexpected plunge in new- and existing-home sales, analysts expected a 3.0% MoM drop in...
Source: Len Keifer Alas, the bubble callers are out and about, this time, calling a new bubble in housing. I will spare you my...