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US housing market gets three bleak signs in first month of 2026
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…
106 housing markets are seeing falling home prices-and not a single one is in the Midwest
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…
This capital city is now the hottest housing market in the US for 2026
Move over Buffalo, there's a new top housing market in town. Hartford, Connecticut, dethroned the northwest New York city as Zillow's top housing market for the year. Buffalo was No. 1 on Zillow's annual hottest markets forecast for back-to-back…
How Sydney's 'two speed' housing market is fuelling interest in this suburb
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As Sydney homebuyers come to grips with record high prices to purchase a property, one suburb is way out in front. And it's an…
Trump housing finance chief OKs more mortgage spending and adds risk for government-backed lenders
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…
Forbes House of the Week: Rocky Mountain High Art
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…
Landmark of Merseyside's industrial heritage turned into £22m housing scheme
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…
Lower rates revive a cooler but fairer US housing market
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…
White House posts 'Embrace the Penguin' amid Greenland fight
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…
Arson investigation after early-hours attack on Sheffield house - BBC News
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…
House candidate predicts historic rise of 'new generation' in Congress as parties target key demographic
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…
My mother promised me the house if I cared for her -now I feel trapped
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…
Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing - Montreal
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…
What Trump could do next to open up the housing market, according to famed real estate investor Grant Cardone
Grant Cardone thinks the Trump administration is gearing up to do more to stimulate the US housing market. The longtime real estate investor says he's bullish on housing as the market enters a new year, even as home prices remain high and mortgage…
'I didn't leave my house for a year - now I've skated the Wild Atlantic Way'
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…
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