Trends Money Man Mad About Rate Increases CNBC TV show host and former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer recently issued a warning for the economy in response to the recent mortgage rate...
New-Home Sales Home Sales Sluggish in September In September, existing-home sales dropped to the lowest seasonally-adjusted rate since November 2015, based on the most recent data from the...
Design This Space Is Driving Homeowner Demand More homeowners are spending more money on their garages, according to National Association of Home Builders' analysis of Bureau of Labor...
Trends Evolution or Revolution Coming for Builders, Experts Say At a recent conference, housing experts identified several ways in which U.S. home builders need to innovate, or risk falling behind. ...
Trends Outlooks Dim for Housing Bank of America and Credit Suisse have a bearish outlook for the housing market. In a recent report, Bank of America concluded that home...
Trends Toil and Trouble: Analyst Predicts Bubble Analyst for financial planning firm Clarity Financial Jesse Colombo warns that the recent gains in household wealth may be artificially...
Trends Housing Stocks in Turmoil The ITB and XHB, two home builder stock-trading exchange-traded funds (ETFs), are on pace to have their worst years in a decade. And experts...
Trends Co-Living Is Having a Moment Previously, co-living was merely a niche product in a multibillion dollar industry. Now, developers are preparing to launch some of the...
Trends Economist's Notes on Recent Rate Rise In October, the rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage crossed the five percent threshold, boosted by the strength of the overall economy,...
Trends Real Estate Real Talk According to real estate analyst Keith Jurow, the housing market's recovery was "built on quicksand," and that softening sales volume and ...