A report from the Tampa Bay Times in Florida. "The current crisis was not caused by pre-existing economic weakness. 'There was little evidence of an approaching downturn as recently as a month or two ago,' said Gary Burtless, an economist…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Has a herd mentality taken hold of buyers in the Toronto-area real estate market of early 2020? Jeffrey Wagman of Forest Hill Real Estate Inc. fears it has. Mr. Wagman points to…
A report from KPBS in California. "Norm Miller, a real estate finance expert at University of San Diego, said if you look at price per square foot, prices have only risen about 1% over the past year. In fact, Miller…
A report from WTBW in South Carolina. "An off-campus student apartment complex near Coastal Carolina University could be foreclosed on after a bank accused it of owing more than $24 million. One of the newer off-campus housing options is The…
A report from Bisnow on Texas. "Real estate investors and developers surveyed for a PwC and Urban Land Institute study still view Dallas-Fort Worth as a Top 10 U.S. real estate investment market even though the region plummeted from the…
A report from Yahoo Finance. "Homebuilding last month leapt to its highest rate in 12 years, newly released construction data says. But the havoc wrought by last decade’s housing bubble has buyers wondering how to protect themselves if the market…
A report from Go Local Prov in Rhode Island. "For nearly three years, the proposed 46-story Fane Tower has been meandering its way through a complex web of Rhode Island’s overlapping regulatory structures. Across the United States -- and including…
A report from the Buffalo News in New York. "When Brett Barrett's husband got a surgical residency in Buffalo, the couple left Chicago for the Colvin Estates neighborhood of North Buffalo. They closed in May on their new $369,000 Marrano…
A report from This Garden Island on Hawaii. "The real estate market on Kauai remained relatively strong through the first half of 2019, but overall sales figures across the island are down from this time last year, and the market…
A report from the Orlando Sentinel in Florida. "Home foreclosures in Orlando grew by 60 percent in the first quarter compared with the year before, even as foreclosures nationwide are falling. Lenders foreclosed on 2,049 homes in the first three…