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Real Estate

Soft Housing Market Is Keeping a Lid on Home Improvement Spending

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With home sales continuing to limp along, Home Depot and Lowe’s are reporting that do-it-yourselfers are cutting back on projects.

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Inflation & Prices

Investors Are Buying Up a Bigger Share of Cheap Homes

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More than a quarter of all US home sales were bought by investors in the last quarter, a new all-time high.

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FA Upside

Young Americans’ Wealth-Building Has Outpaced Everyone Else Since Covid

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US citizens under 40 took some of that pandemic fiscal stimulus and plowed it into a booming stock market.

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Real Estate

Older Homeowners Are Staying Put, Freezing Out Young Families

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Empty-nest Boomers have been reluctant to sell their larger houses, which is making it hard for younger families to find starter homes.

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Real Estate

HOA Fees Are Adding to the Housing Affordability Problem

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

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Markets

Homebuilders Feel the Squeeze of Tight Housing Market

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Shares of leading US homebuilders have plummeted since an industry-wide peak in July, according to a Financial Times analysis.

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Power Corridor

The Great Housing Crisis

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As housing prices reach record highs nationwide – against quite a few forecasts at the start of the year – buying a home is now completely…

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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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