A report from the Herald Tribune in Florida. "A new 5,335-square-foot Casey Key home with a private beach will be auctioned, without reserve, this month. The luxury house on Casey Key was built last year and has never been occupied,…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Four years ago, Alexandra West bought a house in Sacramento, California, for just under $300,000. She agreed to a five-month lease, starting at the end of January 2020. 'She owes well north…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Stella Guan's offer on a 'beautiful' Santa Clarita house was accepted in August. She paid roughly $600,000 for the house. But after sleeping there for only a few nights, she had an…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Sidney Kimmel just sold his lavish Manhattan condo for about $20 million. Kimmel was original asking $39.5 million for the home in December 2018. Kimmel and his wife bought the apartment in…
A report from PBS News Hour. "Landlords in Connecticut are not alone – without federal assistance economists estimate that by mid-January renters across the country will be behind by about $70 billion. And the losses go well beyond market-rate buildings,…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "An Upper West Side property that was originally listed at $4.25 million sold in April for $2.2 million, a 48.2% discount. In Brooklyn, a Fort Greene home sold in June for $1.45…
A report from Bloomberg on New York. "In pricey Manhattan, having a roommate or two is a traditional rite of passage. Now, as the city empties out and rents plummet, even recent college graduates are finding they can afford to…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "A wave of foreclosures is likely coming that will hit low-income homeowners. As of August, over 10% of the eight million single-family mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration were delinquent by…
A report from Mortgage Broker News in Canada. "Readers will be all too familiar with the pitch from realtors who specialize in pre-construction condo sales: Put down your deposit, sit back and watch as that piece of paper appreciates faster…
A report from CTV News in Canada. "Ari Newman has called Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood home for the last three years, but that’s about to change. 'It’s been an increasingly bad experience living in Strathcona,' he told CTV News. 'I’m seeing…