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Older millennials are ‘feeling the hit’ in this housing market, BofA finds—and a lot of it has to do with student debt

The housing market is uneven, according to the Bank of America Institute, and millennials 35 and older “face a bigger financial burden.”

Fortune

Toll Brothers Sees Full-Year Earnings Top Estimates, Forecasts 'Solid' Demand In 2024

Warren Buffett has bet on housing market stocks in 2023 but has ignored this homebuilder.

Investors Business Daily

UK economy shows signs of steadying amid pause in interest rate rises

Modest fall in mortgage costs and rising manufacturer confidence fuel hopes that pressure is easing on consumers and companies

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UK house prices inch higher but ‘rapid rebound’ in property market unlikely

House prices inched up by 0.2% last month, compared with October, Nationwide revealed in its monthly House Price Index.

The Independent UK

UK house prices rise for third month; factory downturn eases – as it happened

Nationwide reports house prices only fell 2% in year to November, and rose during the month, as mortgage rates fall

The Guardian - UK

Housing affordability is the worst it’s been in decades. It will improve in 2024, but by only a ‘small step,’ Realtor.com chief economist says

Mortgage rates are expected to drop modestly to 6.8% in 2024.

Fortune

The average long-term US mortgage rate falls to 7.22%, sliding to lowest level since late September

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell for the fifth week in a row, more good news for prospective homebuyers grappling with an increasingly unaffordable housing market

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Home prices break through ceiling but growth eases

The housing market downturn of last year has been completely unwound, but the pace of growth is slowing.

AAP

Alan Kohler’s housing essay resonates — but some economic forces remain absent

Most readers will learn plenty about housing markets and policy from The Great Divide, but the author’s big-picture view needs sharpening.

Crikey

Leasehold reform: why UK government's plans could make housing less affordable and less fair

The UK government is introducing plans to reform the system of leasehold property in England and Wales to parliament. The leasehold and freehold reform bill aims to empower leaseholders and achieve greater fairness in the housing market.

The Conversation

London's hottest postcodes: the areas where buyer demand keeps rising despite the downturn

Home sales are falling across London but some micro-markets are bucking the trend. We take the temperature of the top 10 hottest spots

Evening Standard

Housing market analyst ‘Poison Ivy’ Zelman, who called the 2008 bust that led to the Great Financial Crisis, sees ‘extremely depressed levels’ of existing home sales for years

Existing home sales dropped 14.6% in October on a year-over-year basis—a new 13-year low.

Fortune

The housing market is crazy expensive, but 'an improvement in affordability that we have only seen a handful of times over the past ~35 years’ is coming, says Morgan Stanley

“The evolution of the U.S. housing market has been Herculean or devastating depending on where you look,” the strategists wrote in their forecast.

Fortune

Mortgage rates have been falling for weeks as inflation fades—but the housing market may still struggle with affordability and high home prices

“For those homebuyers who can wait, the spring will bring more new listings and lower mortgage rates," Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant said.

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Stocks Fall Back on Disappointing Earnings from Cisco and Walmart

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.15%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.25%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.31%. Stocks this morning are mildly lower on some disappointing...

AAP

Four in five Australian housing markets in growth mode

The rebound in home prices has reached most parts of the country although the pace of growth varies across cities and regions.

Fortune

Lower inflation may be the hammer that cracks the unaffordable housing market for would-be homebuyers

Inflation slowing to 3.2% last month means home shoppers may benefit from stabilizing consumer prices and cheaper mortgages, if the Fed cuts interest rates.

Newcastle Herald

Housing innovation in the Hunter from the ground up

'With an increasingly unstable, inaccessible and unaffordable housing market it doesn't take much to go wrong for someone to find themselves homeless or at risk of homelessness'

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Evening Standard

Mortgage-free and not moving: the London boroughs where outright home ownership has soared

More than half of owner-occupied London properties have no outstanding debt, putting the housing market at risk of stagnation

Fortune

Millennials are replaying their parents’ housing market journey as first-time buyers in their 30s flood into an unaffordable market

First-time buyers make up 32% of all home buyers, the National Association of Realtors says—up from last year’s historic low of 26%.

Fortune

This chart shows why millennials, the biggest generation in American history, will keep housing prices sky-high for years to come

“The crux of the issue is supply,” says Ned Davis Research. Too many millennials chasing too few homes leads to housing market inflation.

Fortune

The cracks in the housing market are growing larger. But beware the all-cash buyer

Mortgage rates are down slightly, the number of homes for sale is up, and sellers are dropping their asking price, according to a new Redfin report.

Fortune

The ‘silver tsunami’ is about to hit the housing market—but millennials and Gen Zers may not come out any better in the wash

Just over half of people aged 50-plus are set to downsize in the next two years.

The Street

Mortgage rates plunge the most in 16 months as bond rally boosts beaten-down housing market

U.S. mortgage rates, which hit a 2000 high of 7.9% late last month, fell last week amid a huge rally in Treasury bonds.

Kiplinger

Five Housing Markets On the Rise

Study shows homes in five markets are going under contract in less than two weeks, despite a broader national housing market slowdown. Which cities are bucking the trend and why?

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