A weekend topic starting with the Globe and Mail. "A short three-hour flight from Vancouver, it’s possible to walk off the plane and glide into vacation mode within minutes. The B.C. connection with Palm Springs, Calif., is a long-standing one,…
A weekend topic starting with Strong Towns. "Between 2000 and 2005, the median home price in Southern California grew by 117% from $241,350 to $524,020, an increase of more than $280,000, or $56,000 per year. In 2005, the median household…
A weekend topic starting with Strong Towns. "In 2008, the list of investors swimming naked was long. Among them were America’s banks, big and small. Their reserves were investments believed to be the most secure, including AA- and AAA-rated mortgage-backed…
A holiday topic starting with the Herald Tribune in Florida. "After back-to-back double-digit yearly growth coming out of the pandemic, real estate prices in Sarasota-Manatee will round out the year mostly flat. Robert Goldman, a local Realtor with Michael Saunders…
A weekend topic starting with the Philadelphia Inquirer in Pennsylvania. "Philadelphia developer Eric Blumenfeld has lost control of the landmark Marine Club condo building at Broad Street and Washington Avenue amid an ongoing financial crisis involving upward of $200 million…
A report from KTVB in Idaho. "Some homebuyers in our area are losing their homes, thanks to an unpredictable market and some bad advice. That advice, 'Date the rate and marry the house.' William and Ashley Kaiser are local realtors…
A report from the Sacramento Bee in California. "A bubble in need of bursting. An overheated environment that had to be cooled. A correction for a real estate market out of balance. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been upfront…
A weekend topic starting with the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. "Steve McKenna, a real estate broker at Gibson Sotheby’s, said he is dealing with an elderly couple contemplating whether to sell their $1.1 million home in Arlington and whether they…
A weekend topic starting with the Los Angeles Times. "The high cost of housing is driving Southern California’s biggest challenges. Income is not keeping pace with housing costs. It hasn’t for at least two generations. There’s a metric called 'housing…
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…