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newsweek.com - Giulia Carbonaro - What Donald Trump's ban on investors buying homes means for housing market
What Donald Trump's ban on investors buying homes means for housing market
Newsweek

President Donald Trump's threat to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes in the U.S. has sparked backlash among industry insiders, who believe they are being scapegoated for the ongoing housing affordability crisis. 'Blaming…

abc.net.au - Elloise Farrow-Smith - Coastal land rezoned in the 1980s finally hits the housing market
Coastal land rezoned in the 1980s finally hits the housing market
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

More than 30 years after the land was rezoned, the first blocks of a new Tweed Coast residential estate are finally on sale. The Kings Forest development is predicted to eventually house 11,000 people. The Tweed Shire Council wants the NSW…

fastcompany.com - Lance Lambert - 5 ways Trump's proposed institutional single-family homebuying ban could affect the housing market
5 ways Trump's proposed institutional single-family homebuying ban could affect the housing market
Fast Company

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert's ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced: “I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from…

cnbc.com - Diana Olick - Real estate agents say the housing market is starting to balance out
Real estate agents say the housing market is starting to balance out
CNBC

Of real estate agents surveyed by CNBC in the fourth quarter, 37.5% said it was a balanced market, up from 30% as of the third quarter. More agents reported having at least one seller cut their price in the fourth quarter. While prices are easing…

gobankingrates.com - Travis Woods - The Best (and Worst) Housing Markets for Retirees in 2026
The Best (and Worst) Housing Markets for Retirees in 2026
GOBankingRates

GOBankingRates' editorial team is committed to bringing you unbiased reviews and information. We use data-driven methodologies to evaluate financial products and services - our reviews and ratings are not influenced by advertisers. You can read…

theconversation.com - Alper Kara - What 2026 could hold for the UK housing market
What 2026 could hold for the UK housing market
The Conversation

For many UK households, 2025 marked the beginning of the end of the mortgage rate shocks of the previous year. And while that did not mean a return to cheap borrowing, the easing of interest rates was clearly visible over the course of the year.

dailymail.co.uk - Alexa Cimino - House prices are deflating across the US, but not in this Midwest city
House prices are deflating across the US, but not in this Midwest city
Mail Online

While home prices are flattening or falling across most of the United States, Milwaukee has emerged as a rare housing market outlier. Data showed that home prices in the Wisconsin city rose 5.7 percent per square foot over the past year, even as…

nytimes.com - Binyamin Appelbaum - Opinion | Barring Investors Won't Fix the Housing Crisis
Opinion | Barring Investors Won't Fix the Housing Crisis
The New York Times

|Barring Investors Won't Fix the Housing Crisis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/opinion/trump-single-family-homes-investors-renting.html President Trump relishes a handy scapegoat and, on Wednesday, he picked one to blame for the nation's…

nytimes.com - Tim Balk - This City's Housing Boom Is a Model for Mamdani
This City's Housing Boom Is a Model for Mamdani
The New York Times

A few decades ago, Jersey City, N.J., was seen as a forlorn riverside strip of vacant warehouses, blighted streets, abandoned housing and decaying piers — a former manufacturing town hollowed out by 20th-century suburban flight. Now it is a…

nytimes.com - Annie Karni - House Votes to Uphold Trump's Two Vetoes: Live Updates
House Votes to Uphold Trump's Two Vetoes: Live Updates
The New York Times

Trump's second veto is upheld: The vote to overturn his veto for authorizing a pipeline project that would provide clean drinking water to Colorado's eastern plains did not pass. Trump's first veto is upheld: The vote to overturn the veto that…

wtsp.com - Eric Glasser - Could Trump proposal to limit corporate homebuyers reshape Tampa Bay housing market?
Could Trump proposal to limit corporate homebuyers reshape Tampa Bay housing market?
wtsp.com

TAMPA, Fla. — President Donald Trump says he is considering limits on corporate investors buying up single-family homes, arguing the move could help lower prices and make homeownership more attainable for families. “People live in…

independent.org - Christopher J. Calton - Austin Proves Market-Rate Housing Can Be Affordable: News Article
Austin Proves Market-Rate Housing Can Be Affordable: News Article
Independent Institute

Austin, Texas, has been one of the fastest growing cities in the United States for several years. In the decade before the pandemic, Austin's population grew by 25 percent. Consequently, the median rent skyrocketed from $1,200 in 2017 to a high of…

washingtonexaminer.com - David Harsanyi - Trump's missed opportunity on housing affordability
Trump's missed opportunity on housing affordability
Washington Examiner

Rather than dealing with these forces, President Donald Trump has apparently decided to adopt the preferred policy of socialists Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): blaming the landlords. This week, Trump promised to ban large…

nytimes.com - Alan Feuer - Vance Announces New Justice Dept. Fraud Post to Be 'Run Out of the White House'
Vance Announces New Justice Dept. Fraud Post to Be 'Run Out of the White House'
The New York Times

Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the Justice Department would create a high-ranking position with broad authority to investigate fraud across the country that would be “run out of the White House” and answer directly to…

thehill.com - Don Wolfensberger, opinion contributor - Are House discharge petitions effective?
Are House discharge petitions effective?
The Hill

Today the House is expected to vote on a discharge petition brought by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to extend for three years the ObamaCare (ACA) subsidies that expired on Jan. 1. Today's vote marks the culmination of a petition drive…

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