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Housing market: Mortgage rates rise for third straight week to highest level since June 2025 while home sales fall for third month in a row
The economy, inflation and how those forces could impact the lives of Americans were front and center over the past week. Trips to the grocery store and gas station are more painful than they were last year, and rising costs are impacting the…
Housing market faces headwinds as mortgage rates move above 7%
Better mortgage spreads were a positive storyline in 2026, keeping mortgage rates under 7% all year until this last week. 2026 had the lowest rate curve in many years, but an escalation of the Iran conflict pushed the 10-year yield higher and…
'Small price to pay': The young homeowners welcoming falling house prices even as it hurts them
Falling property prices have come at the worst possible time for Alex Hogan and his partner. They are now weighing up whether they can afford to have another child. Locked out of the established housing market, the Queensland couple resorted to…
Newsom concedes California's housing crisis is fair criticism
Newsom blamed decades of “NIMBYism,” local opposition to development that has “run supreme,” and a persistent gap between housing supply and demand. “It's Econ 101,” he said. But after more than seven years…
Housing with benefits: Why co-housing could be the new Australian dream
It was a conversation with their son who put words to something Ross and Paula Wade had always felt: the desire to live a little differently. They wanted to share a garden and were happy to live in a modest home in exchange for community. They just…
Wonder Woman filming site to become £200m housing development
A Grade II* listed building which was used as a filming location for Wonder Woman 1984 is to be transformed into a £200m housing and leisure development. Plans have been approved to convert Legal and General House in Kingswood into 299 homes…
Wonder Woman filming site to become £200m housing development
Chris Caulfield Local Democracy Reporting Service A Grade II* listed building which was used as a filming location for Wonder Woman 1984 is to be transformed into a £200m housing and leisure development. Plans have been approved to convert…
All 9 Major Houses In House Of The Dragon Explained
There are many noble houses at play in House of the Dragon, and it can be hard to keep track of everyone's motivations. HBO's fantasy universe is based on the A Song of Ice & Fire book series by George R.R. Martin, which is well-known for its…
Construction robots attack America's housing shortage, but we're a long way from humanoid homebuilders
The U.S. housing market is short roughly 1.2 million homes and nearly 300,000 construction workers. Labor shortages cost homebuilders billions of dollars a year and can add months to a new home construction timeline. Housing affordability has been…
White House unloads on violent 'criminal alien' nabbed after investigators uncover election offense
A Bahamian national who arrived in the U.S. during President Gerald Ford's administration and was living with a green card while racking up a violent rap sheet before investigators found he voted illegally in the 2020 election, sparking the…
Terry Savage: The housing crunch is getting critical
The housing industry is tied in a knot. Sales are dropping, but prices remain high. First time buyers can't gather the down payment, much less afford the monthly mortgage, because of 30-year rates that remain around 6.7%. Homeowners who locked in…
New 'floating' house hits the market in York street - have a look inside
The one-bedroom home is for sale in Howard Street, off Fulford Road, for £275,000. It marks the end of an almost 10-year process to make the development a reality, after nearby residents opposed the plans when they were first submitted in…
This Indonesian House Turns Its Sloping Roof Into a Garden, a Staircase, & a Rooftop Pool
Some houses are designed to be looked at. Split Mass Residence, completed in 2026 by K-Thengono Design Studio, is designed to be moved through — a 712-square-metre home in BSD, South Tangerang, Indonesia, where every architectural decision…
'Don't insult me': Labor luminary unleashes over falling house prices, real wages
Bill Kelty, a mastermind of reforms that set up Australia's modern economy, says Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are fuelling One Nation and “insulting” voters by welcoming lower house prices as they preside over a fall in real…
Oklahoma vs. Michigan live updates: Prediction, odds and latest from Week 2 college football game
After their still-contested last-second Week 1 win, the Michigan Wolverines are hosting the Oklahoma Sooners in a major clash between Big Ten and SEC powerhouses. Oklahoma won the first leg of this home-and-home series in Norman, Okla., last year.
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