It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Record vacancies dropped Manhattan apartment rental prices to their lowest levels in seven years as tenants continued to flee the city. The number of apartment listings tripled from a year earlier to…
A report from Bloomberg on Canada. "Active listings of condos in downtown Toronto hit a record at the end of September and were 215 per cent higher than a year earlier, according to Urbanation data. 'Demand is just not keeping…
A report from Realtor.com. "Steve Mariucc is prepped to take a loss on his New York City apartment. The NFL Network analyst has put the Upper East Side condo on the market for $2,595,000. The offensive guru purchased the three-bedroom…
A report from AM New York. "According to RealtyHop, five Manhattan neighborhoods had the highest number of price drops last month. Manhattan’s Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill was the neighborhood with the most price drops in September. The Norwood area of…
Two reports from the Wall Street Journal. "Even with recent gains, more jobs have been lost—nearly 11 million—than were cut in the wake of the 2007-09 recession, when 8.7 million were eliminated. Economic production, despite a sharp bounce-back in the…
A report from the Honolulu Civil Beat. "Erina Peters, a single mom who has called Hawaii home since she was 3 years old, packed up her things and made the tough decision to relocate to Nevada in mid-February. The worsening…
A report from the San Francisco Chronicle in California. "HubHaus, a venture-backed startup in the burgeoning new field of 'dorms for grownups,' has imploded, stranding hundreds of renters and homeowners, mainly in the Bay Area. The 4-year-old Los Altos company,…
A report from Bloomberg. "It was considered one of the root causes of the global financial crisis, and regulators have spent over a decade trying to stamp the practice out. Yet Kroll Bond Rating Agency Inc.’s $2 million fine this…
A weekend topic starting with Honolulu Civil Beat in Hawaii. "Since the pandemic began, veterans and service members have been utilizing Department of Veterans Affairs home loans at historically high rates. Dropping prices and legislation that loosened restrictions on VA…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Oh, how the mighty have fallen. San Francisco saw the biggest year-over-year drop in rental costs in September, but Boston wasn’t far behind, according to Zumper. The median price for a one-bedroom…