It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The Greater Boston Association of Realtors released a report indicating that the number of active listings was up across the board in the region last month. 'Buyers were hard to find over…
A report from CNBC. "'It is definitely a hard landing for housing,' said one homebuilder in the Denver area. 'There's this cliff that's happening in January,' said Gene Myers, CEO of Thrive Homebuilders in the Denver area. He predicted that…
A report from Market Watch. "Rick Palacios Jr., research director at John Burns Real Estate Consulting, said that he’s seeing a surge in sellers shifting from sales to rentals in California. 'Home prices have been falling for several months now…
A report from the Orlando Sentinel in Florida. "'The normal day now, I wake up, look at the [multiple listings service for agents], see a hundred new listings and 400 price decreases,' said Jeremy Wood, an agent with Keller Williams…
A report from West Hawaii Today. "'For every percentage point interest rates go up, we lose 10-15% of our buyers,' said Gretchen Osgood, principal broker at Hawaiian Isle Real Estate in Kailua-Kona. With the market cooling, Osgood predicted that sellers…
A report from Business Insider. "'Someone turned out the light on our sales in June,' an Atlanta homebuilder said in the survey. Meanwhile, a homebuilder in Austin said, 'Sales have fallen off a cliff. We're selling one-third of what we…
A report from Market Watch. "Airbnb had been on track for its biggest drop ever, falling more than 13% in intradrading and becoming the worst performer in the Nasdaq 100, according to Dow Jones and FactSet. Its shares have never…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Christian Chapman, a former underwriter at Better.com, has worked in the mortgage business for almost 20 years and has been laid off by three other mortgage companies in the past. However, none…
A report from the Daily Mail. "In his three-minute call, Vishal Garg CEO of mortgage lender Better.com Vishal Garg, said that the 'market has changed' - meaning savage cuts to the $7 billion company's workforce were needed to avert disaster.…
A report from the Aspen Times in Colorado. "I met a colleague of mine at an Aspen coffee shop earlier this week. We talked about the recent shift from the non-stop activity for the second summer in a row, to…