Home affordability gap for first-time buyers widens as costs rise
WASHINGTON — As the rise in home prices outpaces income, many first-time buyers don’t earn enough to afford…
Mortgage rates top 7% for the first time in more than 2 years
Mortgage rates soared past 7% last week, reaching their highest level in more than two years, according to…
California’s Most, Least Expensive Cities
Housing affordability in California is notoriously rough—but it’s also radically different depending on where you land on…
China new home prices fall at slower pace, but recovery doubtful
By Liangping Gao, Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING, July 15 (Reuters) – China’s new home prices contracted…
Home prices across the U.S. surge to all-time high
With a landmark housing affordability bill in political limbo, U.S. home prices have hit an all-time high. The median…
Americans are escaping the U.S. for New Zealand where house prices have hit a new low
Americans are grabbing their passports and fleeing the country in hopes of leaving the nation’s problems behind. And…
In 250 Years of U.S. Housing, We Are Now Living in Unprecedented Times
We are living in “unprecedented times” when it comes to the U.S. housing market, according to experts. In…
The 30-year fixed mortgage was supposed to be predictable. Two costs quietly broke that promise
Potential homebuyers tend to agonize over two things: mortgage rates and home prices. But that’s not where the…
China Economy: 6 Charts Explain Why, How Economic Growth Is Slowing Down
China’s breakneck economic growth – which lifted incomes at home and reshaped markets abroad – once seemed as…
Buyers hunt bargains amid signs that China’s home prices are bottoming out
Expectations have heightened in major Chinese cities like Shanghai that home prices are bottoming out following a six-year…
America’s housing market decline ‘no longer just a Sun Belt story’—LA and Dallas are tumbling, too
For the past two years, the story of falling home prices was largely a Sun Belt story —…
Home prices still trending up despite sluggish demand
The latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Home Price Index, out Tuesday, will offer a sense of what happened with…