A report from the Mortgage Reports. "A new study indicates that first-time home buyers are having more mortgage delinquency problems than they have since 2010. Black Knight’s most recent Mortgage Monitor report had some alarming findings: Nearly 1% of mortgage…
A report from Market Place. "The housing market is in a weird place. In 2012, demand for homes started rising. The problem was — and continues to be today — that there aren’t enough houses on the market to meet…
A report from KOMO News in Washington. "Sale prices for new homes fell 12.1% year over year in the Seattle metro area in the third quarter, according to a new report. The report also found the price per square foot…
A report from the Wall Street Journal on New York. "The urgent inquiries for office space from companies aiming to do business with Amazon have long ceased. The near-constant flurry of calls from would-be investors in commercial buildings and condominiums…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "New York City is coping with a nationwide exodus of residents from big, expensive cities. In addition, foreign buyers have retreated from the market. 'The thing is, you don't have the Chinese…
A report from WTBW in South Carolina. "An off-campus student apartment complex near Coastal Carolina University could be foreclosed on after a bank accused it of owing more than $24 million. One of the newer off-campus housing options is The…
A report from ABC News in Australia. "Doc Davey purchased his home in a booming West Australian mining town for $560,000 in 2009, but today the same home is close to worthless after ongoing vandalism by local youths. 'I've rebuilt…
A report from Westword on Colorado. "Over the past year or so, there's been debate aplenty about whether Denver's real estate market has finally started to cool off after being red-hot for the past few years. Megan Aller, a sales…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "The aging-in-place technology trend marks a challenge to the numerous real-estate developers who have been rushing to build senior housing to accommodate the roughly 72 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964. Developers…
A report from KCRA in California. "California is at the epicenter of a housing crisis. Thousands of people are fleeing the state, and many of them say they can no longer afford to live here. But today there’s help, and…