A report from the Herald Tribune in Florida. "In the third quarter, foreclosure filings rose nearly 10 percent compared with the year before in Sarasota and Manatee counties, with one in every 615 homes in some stage of distress, according…
A report from the Daily Mail on New York. "Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have reportedly slashed the price of their New York penthouse once again. After initially it putting up for sale for $7.995 million, the A-list couple are…
A report from Domain News in Australia. "Sydney’s weekend auction clearance rate slumped to a low of 44.5 per cent on Saturday. The result was Sydney’s lowest preliminary clearance rate in a decade, excluding public holiday long weekends. Danny Grant,…
A report from the Denver Post in Colorado. "Home sales aren’t just slumping big in metro Denver, they are dropping across much of Colorado and in what were some of the hottest markets in the country. Year-over-year single-family home sales…
A weekend topic from the Tacoma Daily Index. "Home ownership is not for the faint of heart. If you have an older home, you will never lack projects to keep you busy – and you could easily spend every penny…
A report from the Vancouver Courier in Canada. "The dramatic slowdown in the detached home resale market combined with the introduction of the speculation and vacancy tax and other demand-side measures have prompted a host of owners of pricey houses…
A report from the Associated Press on California. "Salinas is one of America's least affordable places to live, exemplifying a housing crisis that plagues California's rural and urban areas alike. Salinas families earn a median income of $69,000, while the…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Denver epitomizes the slowdown taking hold this year in the nation's housing market. Until summer, broker Van Lewis in Aurora, Colo. was having his best year ever. Since then, he says, monthly…
A report from the North Bay Business Journal in California. "Real estate experts around the North Bay are getting early inklings that housing markets in the region are cooling after several years of rapid appreciation in sale prices and rents.…
A report from the Mercury News in California. "There’s new hope on the horizon for harried renters struggling to afford the Bay Area’s astronomical prices — rents have started falling. Median rents dropped in September and August compared to the…