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newsweek.com - Suzanne Blake - Housing market faces 'major' problems in government shutdown
Housing market faces 'major' problems in government shutdown
Newsweek

The National Association of Home Builders is warning that the housing market could face serious issues under the current government shutdown. While the NAHB said, “in most cases, the short-run impacts of a shutdown on the housing sector will…

wsj.com - Nicole Friedman - Housing Market Swings Toward Buyers
Housing Market Swings Toward Buyers
Wall Street Journal

That's the approximate percentage of home buyers last year that purchased a home below the original listing price. It was the highest proportion since 2019, according to a new analysis by the real-estate brokerage Redfin. Many home shoppers have…

fastcompany.com - Lance Lambert - Southwest Florida housing market still seeing a home price correction-how much lower will prices drop?
Southwest Florida housing market still seeing a home price correction-how much lower will prices drop?
Fast Company

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert's ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Back in 2023, this single-family home at 19374 Rizzuto St. in Venice, FL (34293 ZIP Code) was purchased for $565,000. By the time…

wishtv.com - Kendall Pierson - Indy ranks No. 1 in Zillow's 2026 buyer-friendly housing market analysis
Indy ranks No. 1 in Zillow's 2026 buyer-friendly housing market analysis
Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Zillow has named Indianapolis as the No. 1 most buyer-friendly housing market of 2026, ranking first among the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. A release by Indy Chamber says Zillow's analysis highlights Indy's…

fastcompany.com - Adele Peters - The row house is back to solve the housing crisis
The row house is back to solve the housing crisis
Fast Company

At a factory in Austin, a startup recently finished its first prototype: a row house it plans to replicate in cities nationwide to help with the housing shortage. Row houses—narrow, multistory homes that share walls with neighbors on each…

nytimes.com - Erica L. Green - 'They Couldn't Break Me': A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
'They Couldn't Break Me': A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
The New York Times

When Nekima Levy Armstrong was transported from the federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., to the Sherburne County Jail with three layers of shackles on her body — around her wrists, waist and feet — it was the closest, she said, that…

bbc.co.uk - Angus Cochrane - Record number of Scottish children in temporary housing
Record number of Scottish children in temporary housing
BBC

Angus CochraneSenior political journalist, BBC Scotland The number of children living in temporary accommodation in Scotland is at the highest level on record, according to the latest figures. There were 18,092 households and 10,480 children living…

scmp.com - Zhu Wenqian - Shanghai to buy second-hand homes for rental housing in pilot programme
Shanghai to buy second-hand homes for rental housing in pilot programme
South China Morning Post

In a move to bolster the stability of the property market, Shanghai unveiled a plan to buy second-hand homes for use as public rental housing, with the move timed to coincide with the opening of the city's annual “two sessions”…

robbreport.com - Abby Montanez - Ultra-Luxury Real Estate Is Booming Even as the General Housing Market Cools: Report
Ultra-Luxury Real Estate Is Booming Even as the General Housing Market Cools: Report
Robb Report

For most Americans, the housing market remained stubbornly sluggish in 2025. For the ultra-wealthy, it was a very different story. According to a new report from Compass, U.S. home sales priced at $10 million and above jumped sharply last year…

upi.com - Darryl Coote - Clintons agree to testify in House Epstein investigation
Clintons agree to testify in House Epstein investigation
UPI

Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed Monday evening to testify in a GOP-led congressional investigation into deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Angel Urena, a spokesperson for former President Bill Clinton, publicly…

independent.co.uk - Holly Bishop - Watch: Moment House of Lords speaker announces Mandelson to step down
Watch: Moment House of Lords speaker announces Mandelson to step down
The Independent

Lord Peter Mandelson will quit the House of Lords amid allegations he passed market-sensitive information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Lord Speaker has announced. On Tuesday (3 February), Lord Forsyth of Drumlean told the upper…

bloomberg.com - Patrick Clark - Builders Push 'Trump Homes' to Win Backing for a Million Houses
Builders Push 'Trump Homes' to Win Backing for a Million Houses
Bloomberg

Builders are working on a plan for a massive program to develop “Trump Homes” that would address the US affordability crisis while allowing private capital to deploy many billions of dollars. Lennar Corp. and Taylor Morrison Home…

redstate.com - Steve Williams - Why 'Just Build More Housing' Is Failing Californians
Why 'Just Build More Housing' Is Failing Californians
redstate.com

Over the last several decades, rising housing costs in California have been explained as a simple supply-and-demand problem: more people, fixed land, higher prices. But a deeper look into the data tells a more precise story. A simple comparison…

dailymail.co.uk - Martha Williams - Chilling sign housing crash is underway as sellers panic-cut prices
Chilling sign housing crash is underway as sellers panic-cut prices
Mail Online

READ MORE: The five states at the epicenter of America's foreclosure surge Homebuyers finally struck gold last year as sellers raced to slash asking prices at the highest levels since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The shift marks a…

independent.co.uk - Dan Haygarth - Andrew congratulated Epstein on his release from house arrest
Andrew congratulated Epstein on his release from house arrest
The Independent

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor appeared to congratulate Jeffrey Epstein about the conclusion of his house arrest, according to newly-released documents. The US Justice Department on Friday published the third tranche of millions of documents related to…

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