Housing

Inflation Fears Explain A Seeming Housing Market Mystery

Home buyers still active. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images) Getty Images Housing has become increasingly expensive. According to the National Association of Realtors, mortgage rates on average have risen by more than a full percentage point over the last 12 months. The average price of a home has inched up as well. Taken together and […]

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18M Properties And $8T At Extreme Risk And How It’s Changing Housing

This graphic shows the increasing risk to properties and the dollar valuation of the damage to those … [+] properties due to climate events. CoreLogic For most of the U.S. population, summarizing a home as shelter is a fairly gross underrepresentation of what a home actually delivers, but now many are looking for shelter from

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Foreign Buyers Cooling On U.S. Housing Are Looking At Panamá Instead

The residential real estate market rarely rocks headlines—despite economically accounting for the largest single share of U.S. gross domestic product (+/- 17%). The Great Recession pushed real estate front and center in the media for a while as the banks collapsed back in 2008. Covid subsequently upended where and how people wanted to live and

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Abandoned Schools Garner Top Grades In Adaptive Reuse

The high ceilings and huge windows of shuttered schools’ classrooms provide excellent raw material … [+] for the creation of new apartment homes. getty Many developers and design firms have looked to the adaptive reuse of underutilized office buildings as an answer to today’s dearth of affordable housing. But a superior solution may be found

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