A weekend topic starting with KTVZ. "Gov. Tina Kotek has pulled $2.7 million of the $18.2 million in emergency homeless response funds directed to Multnomah County and redistributed them to six other counties, including three in Central Oregon, due to…
A weekend topic starting with Business Insider. "Investor Bill Gross warned of more pain for bond investors as US fixed-income assets head for an unprecedented three-year slump. 'The government first threw money out of a helicopter and almost all of…
A weekend topic starting with Oregon Public Radio. "Just before Portland’s City Council approved a ban on public drug use last week, Mayor Ted Wheeler described what he’d observed on his way to work that afternoon: 'The last time I…
A report from AFP. "'There's such a lack of inventory that it has driven the prices up. I've been doing this for 40 years, I've never seen the prices like they are right now,' said Joan George, a New Jersey-based…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Austin, Phoenix and San Jose have seen home prices fall since the beginning of the year, but those markets were already among the most expensive in the nation. But now price declines…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Christina and Dave Clausi’s family of five moved into a three-bed, two-bath home in McKinney, Texas this July. After renting in the city for four years, the first time homebuyers finally found…
A report from Reuters. "The Federal Reserve has issued a slew of private warnings to lenders with assets of $100 billion to $250 billion as part of increased efforts to tighten supervision, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar…
A weekend topic starting with Denver 7 in Colorado. "Community advocates on Thursday shared mixed feelings about Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's plan for nearly a dozen potential sites across the metro area to house 1,000 homeless by the end of…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "Some of the biggest names in commercial real-estate lending have all but turned off the spigot. Blackstone Mortgage Trust and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust, two of the biggest mortgage real-estate investment trusts,…
A report from the Arizona Republic. "During the second quarter, about 30 Phoenix-area ZIP codes saw home prices fall. In the first quarter, about 75 Phoenix-area ZIP codes posted declines in median home prices, compared with roughly 100 during 2022’s…