A weekend topic starting with the Dallas Morning News in Texas. "'A lot of builders are very worried right now,' said Phil Crone, executive director of the Dallas Builders Association. 'They pushed all their chips in to try to keep…
A report from Deseret News on Idaho. "'The sky is not falling,' said TJ Pierce, a real estate agent in Boise. 'Everybody knew it wasn’t going to last. It’s just a matter of how long.' Hop over to a more…
A report from the Denver Post in Colorado. "Long lead times to complete new homes have combined with rapidly rising interest rates, now at 15-year highs, to put metro Denver homebuilders and their customers in a predicament unlike any seen…
A report from Market Watch. "Prices 'might go down a little bit, but a crash I consider to be a more than 10% decline in home values, and that seems far-fetched right now,' says Daryl Fairweather, chief economist for Redfin."…
A weekend topic starting with Everything Lubbock in Texas. "Mortgage rates are at a 14-year high, which could delay first-time home buyers, the Lubbock Association of Realtors said. 'What has had an effect on [the housing] market is rising interest…
A weekend topic starting with Mises.org. "Paul Volcker (1927-2019) became Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 43 years ago on August 6, 1979. The 20th-century Great Inflation, stoked by the Federal Reserve and the other central banks of the day,…
A report from the New York Post. "'Don’t panic,' said Jacob Channel, a senior economist at LendingTree. 'What you absolutely shouldn’t do in a period like this is panic and think the sky is falling. If you do that, you’re…
A report from ABC News. "Wesley and Kimberly Robinson, both elementary school teachers, started building a new home for themselves and their two daughters in Rogers, Arkansas, last year, when interest rates were close to 3%. But their mortgage rate…
A report from Community Impact in Texas. "Median home prices in Northwest Austin are down $67,000 from July to August, according to the Austin Board of Realtors monthly report released on Sept. 15. August median home prices stood at $577,000,…
A report from Deseret News. "'We’ve definitely slowed. Our prices are starting to come down because the interest rates are so volatile,' said Dejan Eskic, a senior research fellow at the University of Utah. After listening to the latest Fed…