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fastcompany.com - Lance Lambert - 64 major housing markets where home prices are falling
64 major housing markets where home prices are falling
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, nationally aggregated U.S. home prices are up +1.1% year-over-year between…

afr.com - Michael Bleby - GemLife shrugs off weaker housing market, raises guidance
GemLife shrugs off weaker housing market, raises guidance
Australian Financial Review

GemLife Communities raised its earnings forecast as the developer and manager of land lease homes said its target market of downsizing home owners was largely unaffected by higher borrowing costs and federal budget changes that have dampened…

housingwire.com - Jonathan Delozier - Florida's Space Coast housing market enters a new normal
Florida's Space Coast housing market enters a new normal
HousingWire

Florida's Space Coast housing market is settling into equilibrium — with asking prices holding near $390,000 even as buyer activity weakens and nearly half of active listings undergo price reductions. Latest HousingWire Data figures for the…

forbes.com - Jennifer Castenson - Hard To Scale, Impossible To Ignore: Housing Innovation
Hard To Scale, Impossible To Ignore: Housing Innovation
Forbes

A permitted Estuary greywater reuse system at a New Mexico home treats water from the showers, laundry and sinks — including the kitchen sink — and reuses it for irrigation. Housing energy costs across the country are rising faster…

kiplinger.com - Raman Muralidharan - You Have to Move, But the Housing Market Is at a Standstill: How to Navigate the Challenges
You Have to Move, But the Housing Market Is at a Standstill: How to Navigate the Challenges
Kiplinger

For many homeowners, today's housing market feels like a stalemate. Elevated mortgage rates and limited inventory have left many people choosing to stay put rather than make a move. A recent report from Citizens, where I am the head of Mortgage and…

newsweek.com - Amanda Greenwood - CEO says AI data centers are creating a new housing problem
CEO says AI data centers are creating a new housing problem
Newsweek

The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is creating an unexpected new challenge for the U.S. housing market: a growing battle for construction workers. According to Ed Brady, chief executive of the Home Builders Institute (HBI), the country's…

scmp.com - Peggy Ye - Hong Kong housing rally faces test as property flippers retreat
Hong Kong housing rally faces test as property flippers retreat
South China Morning Post

Hong Kong's housing rally faces a new test as investors who rode the first-half rebound become less active in quick-turn trades, leaving owner-occupiers and longer-term buyers to sustain the recovery. Secondary home prices have continued to rise…

bbc.co.uk - Kris Jalowiecki - Camden Council at 'sharp end of the housing crisis
Camden Council at 'sharp end of the housing crisis
BBC

Hundreds of affordable homes originally promised for major Camden developments have been lost or are at risk after developers sought reductions to housing quotas, citing worsening economic conditions. In an eight-acre development named Camden Goods…

entrepreneur.com - Jonathan Small - Gen Z Can't Afford to Buy a House, So They're Putting Their Money in the Stock Market Instead
Gen Z Can't Afford to Buy a House, So They're Putting Their Money in the Stock Market Instead
Homepage | Entrepreneur

Prohibitive prices have locked Gen Z out of buying a home on Elm Street, so many of them are turning to Wall Street. A Pew Research Center survey found 89% of adults under 40 say buying a home is harder for their generation than it was for their…

theguardian.com - Kiran Stacey - Burnham backtracks on spending housing fund only on building social homes
Burnham backtracks on spending housing fund only on building social homes
The Guardian

Andy Burnham has backtracked on his proposal to rip up the government's housing plans and boost social home building. Ministers laid out plans on Monday to spend an initial £10bn from the 10-year Affordable Homes Programme on a mix of…

bbc.co.uk - Mother, grandmother and stepfather sentenced for 'house of terror' abuse
Mother, grandmother and stepfather sentenced for 'house of terror' abuse
BBC

A mother, grandmother and stepfather who subjected three children to years of abuse in a 'house of terror' have avoided jail. Shirley Freeman, Julia Stephen and David McColl's victims were beaten, starved and psychologically tormented between 2003…

standard.co.uk - Nicholas Cecil - Sadiq Khan announces 1,000s more council and housing association homes for London
Sadiq Khan announces 1,000s more council and housing association homes for London
Evening Standard

Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysis I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Sir Sadiq Khan is to inject £6 billion…

mirror.co.uk - Dave Burke - PM challenges councils to 'build us out of housing crisis' as £10bn allocated
PM challenges councils to 'build us out of housing crisis' as £10bn allocated
Daily Mirror

Andy Burnham has called on councils to 'build this country out of a housing crisis' as he allocated £10billion for council and affordable homes. The PM carved out cash for 73,600 homes - of which two-thirds are expected to be social housing -…

bbc.co.uk - Andrew Dawkins - Large £150m Wolverhampton housing scheme prepares for residents
Large £150m Wolverhampton housing scheme prepares for residents
BBC

Thirty family homes are ready to move into at a former city centre industrial site that will provide hundreds of houses in total. Half of the 378 family houses at Wolverhampton's £150m Canalside South scheme had been sold to owner-occupiers…

theguardian.com - Kiran Stacey - Reform would evict social housing tenants over unkempt gardens
Reform would evict social housing tenants over unkempt gardens
The Guardian

Social housing tenants will be evicted if they fail to keep their gardens well maintained under a Reform UK government, the party has announced. Lee Anderson, the party's chair, said that if Reform came to power it would insist that those in social…

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