Trends Alternative Borrowing Programs May Overheat Market Further Startups and traditional lenders are offering debt-laden first-time homebuyers with good credit a variety of flexible borrowing options, but...
Trends Silicon Valley Tech Boom Continues Silicon Valley's tech boom has not slowed, despite earlier prognostications. San Francisco's average home price had the biggest six-month...
Trends One of the Biggest Economic Stories of 2018 A new report casts the U.S. labor shortage in even starker relief, as employers increasingly struggle to find qualified employees, despite...
Trends Lower Rates May Help Hopeful Homebuyers Mortgage rates decreased temporarily in June, giving Millennial first-time homebuyers room to enter the housing market. The 30-year fixed...
Trends Report Suggests the Future of Kitchens Is Extinction A new report from Swiss investment bank UBS asks, “Is the Kitchen Dead?," positing that with the rise of food delivery apps, "home cooking...
Trends Rent Control Vote Coming in California San Diego is one of the few major cities in California that does not have some form of rent control. By November, that may change. A...
Trends Rising Home Prices Constricting Supply Home prices had the biggest increase in four years in May 2018, yet demand has not dwindled in the market. Supply, on the other hand, is...
Trends The Growing Power of These Female Homebuyers Single women over the age of 55 have been the fastest-growing homebuying demographic for the past 38 years, and in 2017, this group made up...
Trends Architects Talk Dwindling Parking Space in Cities In urban areas, public transit, bike- and ride-sharing services, and walking are ubiquitous and preferred forms of transportation. Combined...
Trends Hotels Migrating Into Private Home Rental Market Hotel companies are getting into the private home rental market, spurred on by competition from the booming home-sharing industry. ...
