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Newsfeed: ‘Not the time to get greedy’: Home flippers getting burned by the US housing downturn are now slashing prices to cut losses — here are the 2 big reasons why

Newsfeed: ‘Not the time to get greedy’: Home flippers getting burned by the US housing downturn are now slashing prices to cut losses — here are the 2 big reasons why

Home flippers who pounced on recent drops in home prices now face some major hurdles — and potentially major losses.

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Newsfeed: Home sales fell for the ninth straight month in October, as higher mortgage rates scared off potential buyers

Newsfeed: Home sales fell for the ninth straight month in October, as higher mortgage rates scared off potential buyers

Home sales declined for the ninth straight month in October, as higher interest rates and surging inflation kept buyers on the sidelines. Sales of previously owned homes dropped 5.9% from September to October, according to the National Association of Realtors. That is the slowest pace since December 2011, with the exception of a very brief drop at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Newsfeed: The Housing Boom Is Already Over. The Housing Shortage Will Continue.

Newsfeed: The Housing Boom Is Already Over. The Housing Shortage Will Continue.

As mortgage rates have risen this year, the buyer demand for homes has fallen. That has spelled trouble for the home construction business. Homebuilder confidence dropped for the tenth straight month in October. The decline in builder sentiment reflects what economist Ian Shepherdson describes as “housing … in free fall.

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Newsfeed: Are Rent Controls Coming?

Newsfeed: Are Rent Controls Coming?

As mentioned in a previous post, when I have looked at previous right to left, and left to right political swings, they seem to happen globally, and they seem to happen roughly at the same time. A global shift left happened in the 1930s, and kept shifting until 1970s, when it began to shift back to the right. We are now well into a shift back to the left, that began in 2016. As also highlighted, modern democracies are filled with checks and balances to slow political shifts, but they still happen.

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