Browsing: housing costs
Believe it or not, there is a housing surplus—but not for people who can’t afford a home, study finds
The long-bemoaned housing shortage may not exist after all. Rather, there’s a shortage of cheap rents and affordable homes, according…
Home prices just broke another all-time high. But things might be changing as price inflation slows
I might sound like a broken record, but home prices hit another all-time high in April, according to the S&P…
Real estate CEO says pandemic boomtowns in Florida and Texas are overvalued—and in some cases, are crashing
The allure of pandemic boomtowns is either fading fast, or simply a rebalance of sorts. “These pandemic boomtowns, they just…
Say goodbye to the 20% down payment. Zillow says you’ll need to put down roughly 35%, or almost $128,000, to afford a typical home
Thinking about buying a home? You might be in for a rude awakening: a 20% down payment is no longer…
Home prices are rising at their slowest pace in more than a year and mortgage rates could drop soon, setting up a showdown between buyers and sellers
Home prices are much higher than they were before the pandemic. But record home price appreciation might be coming to…
Impossibly high home price are ‘feudalizing’ California as unaffordable housing markets pose existential threat to middle class, study says
There are unaffordable housing markets, and then there are “impossibly unaffordable” markets, four of which are in California, a recent…
More than a year ago, Ali Wolf, Zonda’s chief economist, told Fortune the $300,000 starter home was going extinct. At…
After sitting on the sidelines for months, sellers finally want to offload their houses, but no one’s buying
Fortune once called the historically low mortgage rates of the pandemic era a blessing and a curse. It’s true—there’s nothing…
The hot metros of the pandemic are crashing back to earth as demand for their homes cool
In a post-pandemic world, the hot metropolitan areas sometimes called “pandemic darlings” are no longer, namely, those in Texas and…
California’s homelessness ‘solution’ is a $1 billion deal for 1,200 tiny homes that might not even come with a bathroom
In March last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised 1,200 tiny homes to temporarily house homeless people, specifically those who…












