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Owens Corning Sales Fall Amid Weak Housing Market
Owens Corning reported lower first-quarter sales as a weak housing market continues to hurt building products demand. The company posted a widened loss of $105 million, or $1.29 a share, compared with a loss of $93 million, or $1.08 a share, the…
U.S. Economy: The Housing Market Worsens
The U.S. housing market faces worsening conditions in 2026, with no rebound expected due to persistent high mortgage rates and the potential for surging foreclosures. Termination of FHA mortgage mitigation programs makes a scenario for much higher…
Which housing markets have the most-and least-mortgage distress right now?
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert's ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Before a home falls into foreclosure, the warning signs typically appear months earlier. A borrower first misses a payment or two…
What's next for Korea's housing market after tax break for multi-home owners ends?
With a temporary tax break for multi-home owners set to expire, attention is now turning to whether the Lee Jae Myung administration's real estate policies will be able to stabilize Korea's overheated housing market going forward, according to…
Housing Market's Crucial 'Spring Selling Season' Is In Tatters (Dow Jones Indices:DJUSRE)
Mortgage applications to purchase a home dipped in the current survey week and remained near rock-bottom levels, down by 34% from the same week in 2019, according to data by the Mortgage Bankers Association today. The average weekly mortgage rate…
AI is quietly splitting the housing market in two: Bay Area luxury homes are up 13%, affordable ones are collapsing
As AI mints new millionaires, billionaires, and even trillionaires, it's also threatening to replace entry-level workers and sparking fearful chatter of the “permanent underclass.” There's no place that's more evident than in the Bay…
Las Vegas' volatile housing market on decades-long roller coaster
Five years ago, Las Vegas' housing market was red-hot. Homes sold rapidly, as buyers flooded properties with offers and routinely paid over the asking price. One agent said he held an open house that drew so many people that local security did…
This Is the Tiny House the Short-Term Rental Market Has Been Waiting For
I truly love a well-designed tiny home — one that doesn't just compress living into a smaller footprint but genuinely rethinks how space can work harder. The Rasa by Simplify Further Tiny Homes is exactly that. Born from three years of…
1st Look at Local Housing Markets in April
April sales were mostly for contracts signed in February and March, and mortgage rates averaged 6.05% in February and 6.18% in March (Slightly higher than for closed sales in March). Some of these contracts were signed prior to the war and the…
Council HMO bought for temporary housing 'empty' and 'wide open
Esme Ashcroft Gloucestershire political reporter Councillors say they are concerned an 18-bed council property is lying empty and unsecured a year after it was acquired to provide temporary accommodation. Gloucester City Council's Conservative…
Chiron Real Estate to Acquire Three Senior Housing Communities for $425M
The real estate investment trust said Wednesday the deals mark its initial entry into senior housing, and is part of its efforts to invest in housing in supply-constrained markets. 'We believe this is an attractive time to enter the sector given…
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a…
Southern Republicans press ahead with election-year House redistricting despite protests
The Supreme Court ruled last week that Louisiana relied too heavily on race when creating a second Black-majority House district as it attempted to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The ruling significantly altered a decades-old understanding of…
Spencer Pratt roasts Bass for 'burning my house' at LA mayor debate
Wednesday night's debate between Pratt, Bass, and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman started contentious, with Pratt calling Bass an “incredible liar” as they discussed her administration's response to the wildfires. As part of his…
Republicans lose ground in eight key House districts: Sabato's Crystal Ball
Republicans lost ground in eight House races that could be crucial to the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections, the election forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball said in its latest update on Wednesday. Historically, the party in the White House loses…
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