Category: Buying/Selling/Renting

Housing advocates in New York City are pressing Mayor Zohran Mamdani to go beyond standard city-owned lots and direct attention to underused parcels controlled by the City University of New York. The push comes just as Mamdani signed an executive order creating a task force to identify land for at least 25,000 new housing units,…

Hawaii has become the first state where housing costs have outpaced local incomes so thoroughly that no city, county, or metro area offers an affordable option for a typical working household, whether renting or buying. A University of Hawaii housing affordability report found that conditions are “as bad as it’s ever been,” and federal data…

After more than a decade of relentless price gains that pushed homeownership out of reach for millions, buyers in certain U.S. housing markets are finally gaining ground. The shift is measurable: sellers now outnumber buyers by the widest margin on record, discounts off asking prices have hit levels not seen since 2012, and existing-home sales…

Rents across the United States have slipped to a four-year low, and a wave of new apartment supply in Sun Belt cities is pulling prices down faster than anywhere else. But the relief is distributed unevenly. Mid-income renters in high-growth metros are catching a break, while the lowest-income households, many of whom already spend more…

A fast-growing financial product is letting homeowners pull cash from their properties without monthly payments, but federal regulators and state prosecutors warn the arrangement could strip away far more equity than borrowers expect. Home equity investment contracts, or HEIs, give homeowners an upfront lump sum in exchange for a share of their home’s future value….

Real estate professionals across the country say a growing mismatch between where homes are being permitted and where buyers need them is creating a distinct strain on the housing market. The concern centers on a geographic split: construction authorizations are concentrated in a handful of fast-growing regions while many high-demand coastal metros see comparatively less…

Homeowners over 70 who finally decide to sell are absorbing sharper price reductions than younger sellers, and the financial penalty grows wider with each passing year of ownership. The forces behind this gap are not mysterious: deferred maintenance, fewer renovations, and selling channels that bypass competitive bidding all chip away at returns. When you layer…

Florida’s next five years are expected to be shaped by favorable job growth, steady in‑migration and what one forecast calls sustained demand for the Sunshine State, which together keep housing on investors’ radar. Real estate agents watching those trends are zeroing in on a handful of metros where pricing, population and local development line up…

Renters are often described as vulnerable, squeezed by rising housing costs and the whims of landlords. Yet the same dynamics that expose renters to risk also reveal how central they are to the housing economy’s basic math. When renters recognize that dependence and organize around it, they can turn what looks like weakness into bargaining…

High-end property in the United States is tracked, recorded, and verified through county offices that treat a vice president’s beach house the same way they treat a schoolteacher’s condo. Behind every luxury closing is a public paper trail that shows who owns what, how that changed over time, and what risks might be hiding in…