It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "After two lucrative summers, Jeanette Robinson said seasonal reservations are trickling in much slower for her Falmouth bed and breakfast. 'The rental market is totally flooded,' said Robinson, who has owned the…
A report from NBC News. "Despite offering a salary of $167,000, the city of Steamboat Springs can’t find a head of human resources who can afford a place to live in the remote Colorado community. At the Steamboat hospital, doctors…
A weekend topic starting with the Courier Journal. "The first call came in December 2011. It was a real estate broker from Mexico offering an exciting opportunity: A buyer wanted to pay Stephen, a financial manager from the Midwest, $65,000…
A report from the San Antonio Report in Texas. "Almost two years after announcing that Frost Bank would offer home loans again, that new department is 90 people strong and has just begun rolling out three mortgage products in San…
A report from the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. "Greater Boston’s housing market over the last few years has been anything but normal. Prices soared to staggering heights in 2021 and 2022. And now things have cooled dramatically. Home prices have…
A report from KXTV in California. "'These homes we're in now... when they went up originally in 2018 just before the pandemic, they were running anywhere from high $300,000 to low $400,000,' realtor Dana Harward explained as she drove around…
A weekend topic starting with the LA Daily News. "Q. Am I wrong to suggest that prices are already falling sharply, we just can’t see it? Wolf: I don’t think falling home prices are widespread yet, but there are absolutely…
A report from Bloomberg. "Zillow, which acquired more than 3,800 homes in the second quarter, will stop pursuing new home purchases as it works through a backlog of properties already in its pipeline. 'We are beyond operational capacity in our…
A weekend topic starting with Curbed New York. "Since it took off about a decade ago, the co-living industry has gone to great lengths to sell an image of communal bliss. If you were a minor player with a master…
A weekend topic starting with the Vancouver Sun. "'If we can find a bunch of billionaires from around the world to move here, that would be a godsend. Because that’s where the revenue comes to take care of everybody else.'…