A report from the Wall Street Journal on New York. "Manhattan apartment sales tumbled during the third quarter and prices fell to their lowest level in four years, a Wall Street Journal analysis showed. In the third quarter, the median…
A report from CBC in Canada. "Since the spring, sentiment around real estate has improved. Interest rates have been dropping and prices have adjusted downwards. Those buying in the luxury market in 2017 were often foreign buyers and that market…
A report from The Naples News in Florida. "Has it become a buyers' market? Zillow, indeed, has declared it just that, now officially designating both the Collier and Lee County areas as cold markets. As of July, its freshest data,…
A weekend topic starting with the Wall Street Journal. "We Co. is a New York company that subleases office space, and Juul Labs Inc. is a San Francisco based-seller of vaping products. But the resignations this week of the CEOs…
A report from the Houston Chronicle in Texas. "These investors fix and flip, and the faster they sell a home, the lower their holding costs and the greater their profit. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. But two years…
A report from Bisnow on California. "New efforts by the Trump administration to penalize California for its housing crisis are misguided and off base, several CRE experts told Bisnow. Experts told Bisnow that while calling the skyrocketing rate of homeless…
A report from Multi-Housing News. "Rezoning or 'upzoning' of entire neighborhoods is undertaken to, on the one hand, increase the density of housing and, on the other, provide cheaper rental units. Neighborhoods that were occupied strictly by single-family homes and…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Colorado home prices have sky rocketed, at the same time that wages have stalled. The City of Denver sponsors a program that helps fill that gap called the Metro Down Payment Assistance…
A report from the San Francisco Chronicle in California. "Bay Area home prices slumped for a sixth straight month in August, according to CoreLogic. Prices year-over-year have now been flat or falling for six consecutive months. From last fall into…
A report from the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. "The state’s housing market wrapped up the summer the same way it started: Tight and expensive. But there are signs in some parts of the market that things may be topping out.…