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After existing home sales tumbled, new home sales were expected to follow suit amid soaring borrowing costs and ever-higher prices (despite building inventories and
Home flippers who pounced on recent drops in home prices now face some major hurdles — and potentially major losses.
Home sales declined for the ninth straight month in October, as higher interest rates and surging inflation kept buyers on the sidelines. Sales of
As mortgage rates have risen this year, the buyer demand for homes has fallen. That has spelled trouble for the home construction business. Homebuilder
As mentioned in a previous post, when I have looked at previous right to left, and left to right political swings, they seem to
With homebuilder sentiment collapsing, it should be no surprise that analysts expected housing starts and permits to tumble in October, and they were right
The US housing affordability crisis continues to worsen as mortgage rates skyrocket to two-decade highs while the cost of an average home is still
It appears delusion and hope can only last so long – even when one’s salary depends on it – as US homebuilder confidence crashed to
It’s that time of the month again. The ‘most important’ CPI print in history, since the last ‘most important’ CPI print, is expected to
Mortgage rates fell sharply Thursday after a government report showed that inflation had cooled in October, prompting a decline in bond yields.
House prices are sliding, and sales are plunging as the Federal Reserve hits the pause button on quantitative easing this year with the most aggressive interest
A normally dry research report jolted the gold market this week, when it pointed to massive but so far unidentified sovereign buyers. Central banks
Central banks globally have been accumulating gold reserves at a furious pace last seen 55 years ago when the U.S. dollar was still backed
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday by 75 basis points for the fourth straight meeting while hinting at a potential slower pace
The stock market has long been the go-to choice for people looking to invest their money. But that could be about to change as
Halloween Horror Stories Part 2 featuring five more mortifying memoirs about real estate deals gone bad, and what valuable lessons can be learned.
Too many terrifying tales of investing trials and tribulations for just one episode, so this is part 1 of 2 back-to-back episodes of Halloween
The Fed’s next crisis is already brewing. Unlike 2008, where “subprime mortgages” froze counter-party trading in the credit markets as Lehman Brothers failed, in 2022, it
Following the declines in new- and existing-home sales, analysts (unsurprisingly) expected to see pending home sales drop for the 10th month of the last
The Federal Reserve is seen slowing its aggressive rate-hike pace in December, with data published Thursday offering new evidence that the economic slowdown that
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