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Housing market predictions for 2023

We’re rounding the corner on 2022 and quickly heading toward a new year. That makes this a perfect time to prognosticate real estate matters for 2023. With mortgage rates escalating higher, home sales — and, in some areas, home prices — hitting the brakes, and increased uncertainty felt throughout the…

Tribune News Service · Oct 27, 2022

After suspending political donations post-insurrection, AT&T and Valero fund election-deniers in the midterms

AT&T and Valero were among a handful of political action committees that donated to candidates this cycle who have denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election results.

The Texas Tribune · Oct 26, 2022

Is the housing market about to crash? Here’s what experts are saying

After a record-breaking run that saw mortgage rates plunge to all-time lows and home prices soar to new highs, the U.S. housing market finally is slowing. While demand and price gains are cooling, any correction is likely to be a modest one, housing economists and analysts say. No one expects…

Tribune News Service · Oct 20, 2022

Fed's rate hikes hammer housing affordability

The Fed is trying to make home buying more expensive. It's working.

Axios · Aug 17, 2022

LOCALIZE IT: Mortgage rates up, applications down across US

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The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2022

Annual Foreign Investment In US Home Sales Up 8.5% To $59 Billion

Global investors are paying record prices for U.S. residential real estate. What Happened: According to new data from the National Association of Realtors, international buyers purchased $59 billion worth of U.S. residential properties between April 2021 and March 2022, up 8.5% from the same period one year earlier.

Benzinga · Jul 18, 2022

What Fed Chairman Powell sees for the housing market

The fate of the housing boom is on the minds of both homeowners and homebuyers these days. Will record home values lead to a crash reminiscent of the one that made the Great Recession so painful? Or will prices simply take a breather from their torrid pace of appreciation?

Tribune News Service · Jun 23, 2022

Home prices keep rising, even as the market cools

"The affordable housing problem is going to stick around no matter what."

Axios · Jun 22, 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

Why it's so hard to buy a house

High borrowing costs do nothing to deter cash buyers.

Axios · May 5, 2022