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newsweek.com - Hugh Cameron - US housing market gets three bleak signs in first month of 2026
US housing market gets three bleak signs in first month of 2026
Newsweek

After a year marked by elevated mortgage rates, multifaceted affordability issues and resultingly weak buyer demand, the opening weeks of 2026 have already offered several concerning signals regarding the health of the U.S. housing market. Experts…

fastcompany.com - Lance Lambert - 106 housing markets are seeing falling home prices-and not a single one is in the Midwest
106 housing markets are seeing falling home prices-and not a single one is in the Midwest
Fast Company

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert's ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Based on our analysis of the Zillow Home Value Index, U.S. home prices are up just 0.1% year over year from December 2024 to…

abcnews.go.com -  BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press - Trump housing finance chief OKs more mortgage spending and adds risk for government-backed lenders
Trump housing finance chief OKs more mortgage spending and adds risk for government-backed lenders
ABC News

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's federal housing finance director, Bill Pulte, quietly granted government-backed lenders the authority to nearly double a $200 billion bond purchase that Trump ordered to try to lower mortgage rates, a move…

thenyledger.com - News Room - Forbes House of the Week: Rocky Mountain High Art
Forbes House of the Week: Rocky Mountain High Art
The New York Ledger

A re we there yet? Beyond the actions of the torchbearers among us, have we finally pivoted in how we see and value our houses, departing from the purely egocentric in favor of the ecocentric? From single-minded status- and investment-focused…

liverpoolecho.co.uk - Elliot Jessett - Landmark of Merseyside's industrial heritage turned into £22m housing scheme
Landmark of Merseyside's industrial heritage turned into £22m housing scheme
Liverpool Echo

A Bootle landmark, known as part of Merseyside's industrial heritage, has now been completely transformed, as work to build 104 new affordable homes nears completion, providing a much-needed boost to the area' social housing options. The site off…

bbc.co.uk - Wrexham house that inspired Turner watermill painting on sale for £1.5m - BBC News
Wrexham house that inspired Turner watermill painting on sale for £1.5m - BBC News
BBC

Many people would like to say their home is beautiful, but Brendan and Celia Wilson can truly say theirs is a work of art. The couple's Grade II-listed watermill house dates back almost 450 years and was the inspiration for a painting by Joseph…

mpamag.com - Liezel Once - Lower rates revive a cooler but fairer US housing market
Lower rates revive a cooler but fairer US housing market
Mortgage Professional

Buyers gained leverage as mortgage rates hit a three‑year low Mortgage rates that slipped to a three‑year low in mid‑January breathed some life back into a sluggish US housing market, offering brokers a modest bump in…

thehill.com - Sophie Brams - White House posts 'Embrace the Penguin' amid Greenland fight
White House posts 'Embrace the Penguin' amid Greenland fight
The Hill

President Trump's interest in Greenland has reached meme territory, with the White House posting an AI-generated image on Friday of President Trump walking with a penguin through a snowy, mountain landscape. “Embrace the penguin,” the…

cointelegraph.com - Vince Quill - PENGUIN Memecoin Climbs to Over $136M Market Cap After White House Post
PENGUIN Memecoin Climbs to Over $136M Market Cap After White House Post
Cointelegraph

The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) token, a memecoin launched on the Solana layer-1 blockchain network, surged by about 564% following a social media post from the United States White House. On Friday, the White House published a social media post…

bbc.co.uk - Grace Wood - Arson investigation after early-hours attack on Sheffield house - BBC News
Arson investigation after early-hours attack on Sheffield house - BBC News
BBC

Image source, South Yorkshire Police An arson investigation has been launched after a house in Sheffield was targeted in an early-hours attack, police said. Two men approached the home in Tithe Barn Close shortly after 02:25 GMT on Tuesday and set…

foxnews.com - Peter Pinedo - House candidate predicts historic rise of 'new generation' in Congress as parties target key demographic
House candidate predicts historic rise of 'new generation' in Congress as parties target key demographic
Fox News

After making historic inroads with Hispanic voters in the last several election cycles, the Republican Party is going all in on winning the Latino vote this midterm election. The party, which currently holds a razor-thin majority in the House of…

dailymail.co.uk - Vanessa Stoykov - My mother promised me the house if I cared for her -now I feel trapped
My mother promised me the house if I cared for her -now I feel trapped
Mail Online

I'm a daughter in my early 50s, and for several years I've been caring for my mother. When she first needed help, she promised me the house if I stayed to look after her, on the sole condition that she would never be placed into care. At the time…

globalnews.ca - Staff - Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing - Montreal
Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing - Montreal
Global News

Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada is following through on a campaign promise to rewrite her predecessor's signature bylaw on affordable and social housing. Former mayor Valerie Plante's bylaw required new housing builds to include fixed…

telegraph.co.uk - Millie Smith - 'I didn't leave my house for a year - now I've skated the Wild Atlantic Way'
'I didn't leave my house for a year - now I've skated the Wild Atlantic Way'
The Telegraph

Sixteen hundred miles, five-and-a-half months and one skateboard – that was what it took for Becky Gilmour to set a world record. The 26-year-old recently became the first person to skate the 2,600km Wild Atlantic Way, the world's longest…

oxfordmail.co.uk - Madeleine Evans - Oxfordshire village market house closed for repair one month after opening
Oxfordshire village market house closed for repair one month after opening
Oxford Mail

South Oxfordshire District Council funded the makeover and reconfiguration of the Market House building and public toilets in Thame town centre, to make the village more accessible for visitors. The re-done space opened in December 2025, but…

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