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The Latest Breaking News from Home Prices

Sunbelt boomtowns are cooling off, but the sun-soaked region will reclaim its hot status

More than 2 million single-family homes have been built in the South since January 2021, more than four times the number completed in the Northeast, according to a Capital Economics economist.

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Average rate on a 30-year mortgage falls to 6.73%, lowest level since early February

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell this week to its lowest level since early February, easing borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers facing record-high home prices

The Independent UK

Gen Z and millennial homeownership rate plummets to 4-year low

But while the younger group saw their homeownership rate fall, some older generations saw theirs rise.

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Adelaide home prices could soon surpass Melbourne as Victorian capital slumps

Fall of 4.4% since peak in 2022 bucks broader trend, PropTrack finds, with national real estate prices 6.3% higher than a year ago

The Guardian - AU

Housing bust forecaster ‘Poison Ivy’ Zelman warns: Affordability grind isn’t going away anytime soon

While she sees further home-price deceleration and a dip in mortgage rates, Zelman says cost is the biggest risk to the housing market.

Fortune

The ultrarich are scooping up mansions while almost no one else can afford a typical home

Luxury-home prices rose more than twice as fast as those of non-luxury homes, and still their sales jumped compared with typical homes, according to Redfin.

Fortune

US home sales fell in June to slowest pace since December amid rising mortgage rates, home prices

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in June for the fourth straight month as elevated mortgage rates and record-high prices kept many would-be homebuyers on the sidelines

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U.S. real estate is so expensive it's even keeping out wealthy foreign homebuyers

Foreign buyers haven’t purchased so few homes since 2009—15 years ago.

Fortune

Monthly housing payments have almost doubled in swing states since the last election

Swing states “have not been immune to the affordability crunch the country has been facing for the last several years,” Redfin’s senior economist said.

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Average rate on a 30-year mortgage falls slightly, easing borrowing costs for home shoppers

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell slightly this week, providing modest relief for home shoppers facing record-high home prices

The Independent UK

The US housing market was a bust this spring. Here’s what that means for summer and fall

The nation’s housing market sales slump is dragging on into its third straight year, as evidenced by another weak spring homebuying season

The Independent UK

We’re passing through ‘the worst housing affordability crisis’ ever seen, former Housing Secretary says

Home prices rose at levels never seen before, and while the market is cooling down, housing costs are still beyond what people can afford, the Obama-era cabinet member said.

Fortune

This decades-long trend in home prices has been 'flipped on its head' amid a big shift in the housing market

"That shows the consumer adjusting to a smaller home, taking less space and trying to get back into that range of affordability."

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Cheaper mortgages, tamed inflation and even higher home prices: how 29 forecasters see Australia’s economic recovery in 2024-25

Australia’s top economic forecasters expect the Reserve Bank to start cutting interest rates by March next year, taking 0.35 points of its cash rate by June.

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Home prices just broke another all-time high. But things might be changing as price inflation slows

For the first time in close to a year, the pace of annual home price inflation dipped. Still, home prices and mortgage rates are considerably higher than before the pandemic.

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Real estate CEO says pandemic boomtowns in Florida and Texas are overvalued—and in some cases, are crashing

“These pandemic boomtowns, they just got way too expensive over the last two or three years,” chief executive of Reventure Consulting and Reventure App said.

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The magic mortgage rate is anything below 6%, top real estate CEO says

“That’d be marketing magic, and would tell the world that mortgage rates are at a level where they should go and grab a property,” Compass cofounder Robert Reffkin said.

The Texas Tribune

As more Texans struggle with housing costs, homeownership becoming less attainable

A new housing report from Harvard University found that would-be homebuyers need to make more money than ever if they want to buy a home in Texas’ urban areas.

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China's New Home Prices Experience Biggest Fall In A Decade

China's real estate market faces challenges with declining prices, while other sectors show signs of improvement. Concerns about deflation persist amidst t...

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China new home prices fall at fastest rate in nearly 10 years; French political uncertainty weighs on markets – as it happened

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