Trends The House That Amazon Is Building With its investment in modular builder Plant Prefab and an expansion of its smart home product suite, Amazon is further solidifying its...
Trends Manhattan Market Softening at High, Low Ends A new Douglas Elliman Real Estate report finds that Manhattan's housing market is experiencing softening sales that local experts attribute...
Trends Renting, Buying in 'Era of Uncertainty' New York suburbanites are increasingly opting to rent their home rather than purchase it, waiting and seeing how economic conditions play...
Trends Home Loan Rates Hit Record High Government-backed lender Freddie Mac announced that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.72 percent this week, up 4.65 percent,...
Trends Despite More Sales in August, Market Trending Down While single-family home sales increased in August, experts are expecting the long-range trend of the market softening to continue. The U...
Trends Housing Experts Asking 'What Gives?' Builder stocks are falling figuratively and in fact, as labor and material costs rise, interest rates continue ticking up, and demand...
Trends Housing Demand Flagging For the fourth month in a row, the Redfin Housing Demand Index reading was relatively unchanged in August. Growing by only 0.3 percent from...
Trends Builders Looking for Market 'Sweet Spot' Home builders are encountering more market headwinds now, and while affordability remains an issue, experts cite other reasons for dwindling...
Trends Housing's Haves, Have-Nots U.S. household equity is steadily approaching $16 trillion, while mortgage debt is currently more than $10 trillion. Tight lending, the...
Trends It Takes One to Know One The last financial crisis started in September 2008, and while market conditions have changed in the following decade, self-destructive...