Real Estate

Inflation & Prices

Falling Housing Costs May Start Cooling Off Overall Inflation

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While housing prices have skyrocketed in the past two years, the new year may bring a welcome relief to renters.

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Real Estate

Wyndham Hotels Faces Hostile Takeover Campaign from Choice Hotels

After numerous failed attempts at a friendly merger, Choice Hotels has launched a hostile takeover campaign for Wyndham.

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Real Estate

Florida Developers Still See Building Wooden Homes as a Good Idea

All along Florida’s waterfront, developers are continuing to build cheaper wood-frame homes and apartments, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Real Estate

HOA Fees Are Adding to the Housing Affordability Problem

Prospective homebuyers face limited supply, historically high mortgage rates, plus increasingly high homeowners association fees.

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Real Estate

Private Equity Giant Starts a Vacation-Rental Side Hustle

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TPG, a San Francisco-based investment firm, has begun purchasing single-family homes in Florida tourist destinations.

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Power Corridor

Surviving the Roller-Coaster Ride that Is the U.S. Economy

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The U.S. Economy is taking Americans for a ride, interest rates hit a 23-year high at 8.34 percent on 30-year mortgages.

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Real Estate

It’s Not Just Commercial Landlords Fretting Over New High in Vacancies

Office vacancy rates in major cities have risen to worrisome levels while investments into commercial real estate are in retreat.

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Real Estate

Mortgage Rates Inch Toward 8% and Nobody’s Happy About it

US mortgage rates have climbed past 7.5% — further tightening an increasingly impossible-to-crack housing market.

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Consumer

Macy’s is Pivoting From its Legacy of Anchoring Malls

Macy’s is going less colosseum and more cozy in a cost-cutting shift away from large locations in malls and into small-format stores.

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Real Estate

The Tight Housing Market Is Getting Even Tighter

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Low supply, high prices, and the climbing costs of borrowing have created one of the least affordable US housing markets in decades.

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Real Estate

Home Buyers Consider Climate Risk, Mostly Buy Where They Want Anyway

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Real Estate

Country Garden Avoids Default, Still Stuck With Mountain of Debt

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Real Estate

Hawaiians Brace for Fight Vs Predator Land Buyers After Maui Fires

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