A report from the New York Times. "One Saturday in March, in the suburbs north of Sydney, around three dozen people gathered on a lawn outside a smallish two-bedroom apartment. On this muggy day, almost all of the assembled crowd…
A report from the Daily Republic in California. "The Solano County home market continues to be challenged by the lack of inventory – creating a sellers market that the president of the Northern Solano County Association of Realtors said has…
A report from the Seattle Times in Washington. "Across King County, condo shoppers have nearly three times as many units on sale to choose from than when the market peaked last year. Bidding wars have all but disappeared. The typical…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "An Upper East Side mansion finally sold after more than a year on the market and a hefty price reduction. The elegant limestone structure was acquired by an anonymous buyer for $30.1…
A report from Mansion Global on California. "San Francisco’s median house price was $1.545 million in the first quarter of 2019, a 4% decline from a year ago, according to a quarterly report from Compass. Overall sales in the Golden…
A report from Bloomberg on Florida. "A housing slowdown is taking hold in some Florida markets, where a growing share of properties sold only after the seller cut the asking price. Miami leads the nation in both the size and…
A report from Western Australia Today. "The housing price plummet has allowed more first homebuyers to enter the market, but for sellers it has seen the value of the average Perth dwelling drop from $540,556 in 2014 to $442,716 in…
A report from the Seattle Times in Washington. "Renters looking for something that might qualify as a deal by Seattle standards are in luck as a record number of new apartments spring up. And with new housing openings scheduled to…
A report from Curbed New York. "A contractor who worked on a lower Manhattan condo tower—which is now leaning slightly—is suing the project’s developer, accusing the firm of cutting corners to curb costs, according to court documents. The 58-story tower…
A report from Global News in Canada. "A local realtor and real estate blogger has crunched the numbers and he says Greater Vancouver home sales just had their worst month of March since 1986. According to Steve Saretsky, unreleased numbers…