by Mrinalini Nayak | Mar 12, 2023 | Economy, Featured, Housing
Home prices continued to decline nationally in December, for the sixth month in a row, a sign that high mortgage rates are continuing to deter potential buyers. The seasonally adjusted S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller home price index declined by 0.3%, compared to last...
by Minji Koo | Apr 3, 2020 | Economy, Featured, Housing
When Angela VanHouten was visiting sellers to arrange for showing the properties to buyers through Facetime, the sellers had prepared hand sanitizers, turned on all lights themselves, disinfected door knobs and opened all their doors that did not need to touch...
by Lukas Southard | Mar 28, 2019 | Economy
When Greg Laffey moved to New York City in 2005 he thought he would never return to his childhood home in the quiet suburbs of Pittsburgh. Then he turned 30 and saw that the opportunities for buying a home did not exist for him in New York, but they did in Pittsburgh....
by Willa Rubin | Apr 4, 2018 | Featured, Housing, Newest
When Gabriela Kula moved to Las Vegas last fall to teach eleventh-grade English, she wasn’t sure what to expect. It didn’t have the beaches of L.A., where she grew up, or the historic vibe of Boston, where she went to college. But it had one clear advantage: the cost...
by Alix Langone | Mar 20, 2017 | Economy, Housing, Newest
Residential construction climbed in February as builders continue to be encouraged by the Trump administration’s promises of deregulation. But the administration’s anti-immigration actions have negative implications for the industry’s labor supply. “The lack of...
