The Housing Bubble Blog

A weekend topic starting with Market Watch. "Home prices are falling, but the housing market is still too expensive for most Americans. The median price of a home in the U.S. was about $400,000 — about 5.6 times the real median household income. There may be hope on the horizon: Home prices fell 3%...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Home prices continue to go down in the Boise area. The Intermountain Multiple Listing Service shows the median price of a newly constructed single-family home in Ada County dropped in March to $507,500, a decrease of more than $20,000 from February...

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A report from DS News. "'I was consistently busy in the fall, but things got really quiet in March after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank,' said Boise Redfin Real Estate Agent Shauna Pendleton. 'That killed the buyer momentum that had been building and brought us right back to where we were last...

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A report from CBS Bay Area in California. "Oakland is one of the last cities in the Bay Area hanging on to its eviction moratorium. Many mom-and-pop landlords claim their tenants are taking advantage of the policy, leaving them at risk of losing their livelihoods. 'I'm back due some rent ......

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A report from KVUE in Texas. "After a red-hot Austin housing market, a new report from Zillow shows us just how quickly it's cooling off. The average home value in the Austin-area is down 12% since the record highs we saw in June. But for some, taxable property values are still rising. Melanie and...

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A report from the Hawaii Tribune Herald. "'I’m telling sellers that if they get an offer that’s even slightly acceptable, they should take it,' said Jen McGeehan, Realtor with Coldwell-Banker Island Properties. 'My sellers are starting to price themselves a little bit better, but they’re not hungry...

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A report from the Colorado Sun. "If you’re house hunting, there are plenty of homes available in Colorado — nearly 10,000 at the end of March, which is up 41.8% from a year ago. Prices are a bit lower, too. In the largest market, median sale prices fell 12.6% to $650,000 in the city of Denver....

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A weekend topic starting with Politico. "The Federal Home Loan Banks, a group of government-sponsored lenders whose mission is to finance housing and community development, loaned tens of billions of dollars to three crypto-friendly banks before they failed last month. Critics of the FHLBs say the...

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "After predicting that the sluggish housing market had started to rebound in January, Redfin this week blamed real estate market conditions as part of the reason for its latest round of layoffs. 'At that time, we also acknowledged then that we...

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A report from the New York Post. "According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety, 10,824 Empire Staters swapped out their licenses in the first three months of this year. A Naples broker told The Post this week that this slowdown was inevitable, highlighting soaring mortgage rates, low...

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A report from the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. "The median sales price of a single-family home in Greater Boston dropped nearly 8 percent year over year to $700,000 in February, according to the Greater Boston Association of Realtors. 'People who saw their neighbors sell homes last spring for...