A report from Lew Sichelman. "If you have a fixed-rate mortgage, your payments will always stay the same, right? Wrong. Maybe you’ve heard the term PITI, which stands for the main components of a typical mortgage payment: principal, interest, taxes…
A report from the New York Post. "Some of the Big Apple’s ritziest ZIP codes are seeing home values plummet amid the sustained exodus from the city caused by the pandemic, spiraling crime and ballooning taxes, experts told The Post.…
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,…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Mountain Green condo owners voted in favor of a $50 million assessment to bring the building into the 21st Century, but some longtime owners said their quarterly payments will be so high…
A report from Realtor.com. "The Austin, TX, housing market boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, Ben Brajtbord, 38, and his girlfriend, Emily Sawyer, 34, started house hunting in Austin when the local market was still on fire. The first-time…
A report from NBC 2. "The big boom of 2020 is over. In fact, Zillow predicts the Florida Housing Market will slow down in the coming years. Sharyn Olander's waterfront home in Old Bridge Village in North Fort Myers is…
A report from the New York Post. "Spring may only have just begun, but the summer season in the Hamptons is already off to a blistering hot start. In Water Mill, a two-home compound spread across some 21 acres has…
A report from NBC News. "One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding…
A report from the Herald Tribune in Florida. "The number of single-family homes for sale in Sarasota and Manatee counties has surpassed the high point prior to the buyer-induced frenzy that occurred after the COVID pandemic set the real estate…
A report from the Kitsap Sun in Washington. "A wave of new homes are being built on a hillcrest in Silverdale in the Skyfall neighborhood. The third phase of the project, made up of 29 single-family homes on lot sizes…