A report from the Wall Street Journal on New York. "The urgent inquiries for office space from companies aiming to do business with Amazon have long ceased. The near-constant flurry of calls from would-be investors in commercial buildings and condominiums…
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…
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 Miami Herald. "About two years ago, Janet LeGrand — also known by her maiden name, Janet Garcia — used what Homestead police called a fake engineering firm and a falsified résumé to try to dupe the…
A weekend topic starting with the Times of London. "Unaffordable property prices are down to Britain’s 'broken housing market,'to use Sajid Javid’s words as housing secretary in 2017. The chancellor was referring to the undersupply of new homes, and he…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "A strong appetite among foreign investors for office buildings, apartments, malls and other real estate has in part fueled the long-running bull market in U.S. commercial property. Now, amid a maturing property market…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The Commerce Department said on Friday new home sales dropped 12.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 635,000 units last month. It was the biggest monthly decline since July 2013. The…
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 the Bay Area Newsgroup in California. "Foreign buyers have cooled on the U.S. residential home market, dropping investments by more than one-third over the previous year and spending less in expensive California. About one-third of foreign purchases…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "Inflated bond ratings were one cause of the financial crisis. A decade later, there is evidence they persist. In the hottest parts of the booming bond market, S&P and its competitors are giving…