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afr.com - Lucy Slade, Josh Hohne - Labor's O'Neil admits housing market undergoing a 'correction'
Labor's O'Neil admits housing market undergoing a 'correction'
Australian Financial Review

Housing Minister Clare O'Neil has acknowledged that Australia's property market is undergoing a price correction as auction clearance rates plummet, conceding the slowdown is due in part to Labor's tax shake-up for investors as well as the impact…

wsj.com - Elias Schisgall - KB Home Reports Lower Revenue as Difficult Housing Market Persists
KB Home Reports Lower Revenue as Difficult Housing Market Persists
Wall Street Journal

reported lower revenue and profit in the second quarter, as it continued to contend with a difficult housing market. The home builder on Tuesday reported a profit of $27.3 million, or 43 cents a share, compared with a profit of $107.9 million, or…

independent.co.uk - Marc Shoffman - What Brexit did to the economy, inflation and housing market ten years on
What Brexit did to the economy, inflation and housing market ten years on
The Independent

It is a decade since the Brexit vote and the ramifications are still being felt. The EU referendum took place on 23 June 2016 when the UK voted to leave the political bloc, ending the country's membership of the customers union and the single…

wsj.com - Nicole Friedman - Brief Drop in Mortgage Rates Points to Another False Start for the Housing Market
Brief Drop in Mortgage Rates Points to Another False Start for the Housing Market
Wall Street Journal

The U.S. mortgage market is locked in a tug of war, leaving home buyers and refinancers caught between a brief respite in geopolitical tensions and a hawkish Federal Reserve. In late February, driven by Fed rate cuts in prior months, the 30-year…

seekingalpha.com - Seeking Profits - KB Home Q2 Review: Muted Housing Market Unlikely To Recover Soon (NYSE:KBH)
KB Home Q2 Review: Muted Housing Market Unlikely To Recover Soon (NYSE:KBH)
Seeking Alpha

KB Home remains a 'Hold' as persistent high mortgage rates and weak first-time buyer demand constrain recovery prospects. Q2 results were soft: revenue fell 27%, gross margin dropped to 15.2%, and operating margin compressed to 3%. KBH pivots to a…

whyy.org - Aaron Moselle - Why Philadelphia's housing market remains so difficult to navigate
Why Philadelphia's housing market remains so difficult to navigate
WHYY

Have a question about Philly's neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly reporters want to hear from you! Ask us a question or send us a story idea you think we should cover. Philadelphia's housing market remains deeply unaffordable…

upi.com - Darryl Coote - House sends Trump sweeping bipartisan housing package
House sends Trump sweeping bipartisan housing package
UPI

June 23 (UPI) -- Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a sweeping bipartisan housing package that seeks to lower housing costs and expand homeownership access, sending the legislation to President Donald…

theguardian.com - Guardian staff reporter - House gives final approval to bipartisan housing bill aimed at lowering costs
House gives final approval to bipartisan housing bill aimed at lowering costs
The Guardian

The House gave final approval on Tuesday to a broad bipartisan bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing, with lawmakers in both parties eager to show progress on affordability issues ahead of this year's midterm elections. The 358-32 vote sends…

arlnow.com - ARLnow.com - The housing market will slow down for the next six months
The housing market will slow down for the next six months
ARLnow

This regularly scheduled column is written by Eli Tucker, Arlington-based Realtor and Arlington resident. If you would like to work with Eli and his team in Northern Virginia and the greater D.C. Metro area, you can reach him directly at [email…

washingtonexaminer.com - Zach Halaschak - Congress passes landmark housing bill ahead of midterm elections
Congress passes landmark housing bill ahead of midterm elections
Washington Examiner

Broadly, the legislation is designed to bring down costs by increasing the housing supply, long a goal for affordable housing advocates who say the U.S. housing market is millions of homes short of where it should be. Affordability, given years of…

thehill.com - Miranda Nazzaro - Proxy war between AI industry, safety groups comes to head in NY House primary
Proxy war between AI industry, safety groups comes to head in NY House primary
The Hill

New York City voters are set to deliver their verdict Tuesday in one of the most prominent election battles between artificial intelligence companies and the nonprofits pushing for stricter rules on the new technology. The fight over AI policy has…

afr.com - The AFR View - Labor's housing affordability fix could freeze the market
Labor's housing affordability fix could freeze the market
Australian Financial Review

There's an old economic truism that every government intervention creates unintended consequences, which inevitably lead to calls for further interventions. That seems to be playing out with the Albanese government's contentious changes to capital…

sunjournal.com - Christopher Wheelock - Modular construction, big or small, fills a hole in Maine's housing market
Modular construction, big or small, fills a hole in Maine's housing market
Lewiston Sun Journal

PORTLAND — If you see a house floating across Casco Bay soon, this may be why. BrightBuilt Home, a maker of environmentally conscious modular homes, is in the final stages of design, construction and installation of a small, high-performance…

axios.com - Julie Bogen - Axios House: AI gives creativity a microphone, marketing leaders say
Axios House: AI gives creativity a microphone, marketing leaders say
Axios

CANNES, France — AI is giving people more time, freedom and tools to exercise creativity, brand messaging executives said at an Axios event. Why it matters: As AI floods feeds with automatically generated content, companies that use the…

abc.net.au - Holly Tregenza - Minister denies housing price slump is being driven by property tax changes
Minister denies housing price slump is being driven by property tax changes
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Federal Housing Minister Clare O'Neil has acknowledged the property market is experiencing a correction after auction clearance rates dropped below 50 per cent last week. She says the dip in house prices is being driven by a range of factors, not…

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