A weekend topic starting with the Financial Times. "Viewed from Bangalore, the purchase of a newly built three-bedroom apartment in London for more than £1.4m (S$2.4m) seemed like a safe investment bet. As Shonu Bhandari considered the purchase two years…
A report from the Journal Gazette in Indiana. "Students choosing to live on campus at Purdue University Fort Wayne this all could pay less than expected due to higher than anticipated demand. Filling beds had been a challenge since the…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "I was not surprised to hear housing prices have fallen for the first time in something like a decade. I could have hazarded a guess that was the case based on nothing…
A report from the Orange County Register in California. "Lake Forest will get 144 new townhomes with prices starting under $600,000. Silveroak is Landsea Homes’s latest addition to its 543-home IronRidge community in Portola Hills. Landsea says pricing will start…
What's your mid-year housing bubble predictions? From six months ago: "In Q1, house prices start lapping the 2018 conventional loan limit increases. As a result, we will start seeing YOY price declines in larger markets. The increase in loan limits…
A report from the Bay Area Newsgroup in California. "Seventy-year-old Jeanine Fetterly’s dream since 1976 was to have her children build themselves a home on on a lot that she bought down the street from her house. But after the…
A report from the Denver Post in Colorado. "Listings continued to flow into metro Denver’s housing market last month, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. Despite lower borrowing costs, buyers fell short when it came to absorbing the…
A report from CNBC. "A Federal Reserve economist says the current housing backdrop is similar to recent economic slumps, with several metrics 'consistent with the possibility of a late 2019 or early 2020 recession. 'Data on single-family home sales through…
A report from the Times Free Press in Tennessee. "The median rent quoted for a typical two-bedroom apartment in Chattanooga jumped 9.9% in the past year as housing prices continued to outstrip the gains in income. But with an abundance…
A report from the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia. "Earlier this year, the VA loan industry celebrated its 24 millionth loan. Chris Birk, a spokesman for Veterans United, the nation’s largest VA lender, said the program is as popular now as…