A report from the Los Angeles Daily News in California. "The San Fernando Valley’s real estate market pendulum is swinging toward home buyers, leaving sellers on the other end cautious these days, according to experts. 'Buyers now have way more negotiating…
A weekend topic starting with Asia News. "Here we publish the ground breaking speech that Prof. Xiang Songzuo held on December 16th at the Renmin University School of Economics, during a seminar for entrepreneurs. This speech is now impossible to…
A report from the Sun Sentinel. "In South Florida, there was an increase of more than 57,000 jobs in 2018 than a year earlier. At the same time, unemployment is lower than it has been in over a decade, according…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Andrew Bauer, deputy regional executive for the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank’s Baltimore branch said the weakness of Maryland’s housing market 'astounds' him. We’re not a state like some of the other states…
A report from the San Francisco Business Times in California. "Bay Area home sales plummeted by 22 percent in December, marking the largest year-over-year decline in sales of for any month since at least 2016. 'The early year rush led…
A report from the Denver Post in Colorado. "New apartments continue to pour onto the market, pushing down average rents in metro Denver for the second quarter in a row and boosting the vacancy rate a tad, according to the…
A report from Boston.com on Massachusetts. "'Buyers are exercising a little more caution and restraint than a year ago,' said James Major, Greater Boston Association of Realtors president. 'The pool of buyers is still large, but after several years of…
A report from the Globe and Mail in Canada. "A Toronto-area real estate development company that in recent months has cancelled two condominium projects has filed for court protection from its creditors after failing to make payments on about $220-million…
A report from CBS News. "Home affordability has been worsening since the real estate market bottomed in 2012. The recovery in home values has easily surpassed gains in typical paychecks. In the Dallas area, just 55 percent of the listings…
A report from the Washington Post. "If you’ve been distracted by the federal shutdown, political dysfunction, stock-market volatility and reports of rising mortgage rates, it wouldn’t be surprising if you concluded: No way is this a good time to even…