The Latest Breaking News from Housing Market

Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Soar While Housing Starts Drop

It was a seesaw week in the U.S. housing market, with mortgage rates taking off like a rocket while housing starts sank like a rock.

Benzinga · Jun 16, 2022

Home sellers are cutting list prices as more buyers take pause: 'The market is not the same'

Home sellers are increasingly cutting their asking prices as buyers, constrained by higher mortgage rates and overall inflation, have become less willing to jump into the housing market at any cost.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 15, 2022

Redfin to lay off hundreds as housing market cools

The cooling housing market is catching up with Seattle's real estate tech companies.

Tribune News Service · Jun 15, 2022

With housing overvalued, a reckoning in the market could be on the way, analyst warns

With housing prices rising exorbitantly during the pandemic and homebuying becoming more unaffordable for many people, a reckoning in the housing market could soon occur, according to analysis from Florida Atlantic University real estate economist Ken H. Johnson.

Tribune News Service · Jun 2, 2022

In search of better data, Seattle plans to require landlords to report rents

Seattle landlords may soon be required to report how much rent they charge — an effort to give city officials better data about the local housing market that drew opposition from some property owners.

Tribune News Service · Jun 1, 2022

UK house price slowdown ‘on way’; factory growth hits 16-month low – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2022

Housing market set to slow as the year progresses, says Nationwide

Prices also increased by 0.9% month on month in May, taking the average house price to £269,914, Nationwide Building Society said.

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2022

‘Two-speed market’: Property prices are falling as rates rise, but not everywhere

Australia’s housing market has started falling from its pandemic highs, with property prices down 0.11 per cent in May amid rising interest rates.

The New Daily · May 31, 2022

Buying amid affordability squeeze? Here’s how homebuyers can cope

The housing market caught fire in 2020 as Americans decided en masse that they wanted homes and were willing to pay for them.

Tribune News Service · May 26, 2022

Housing supply squeeze finally begins to ease

During the record-breaking housing boom of the past two years, a drastic under-supply of homes for sale has bedeviled buyers and delighted sellers. Now, the squeeze is slowly easing — a shift that could mark the start of a much-anticipated cooling of the white-hot housing market.

Tribune News Service · May 26, 2022