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Inflation & Prices

April’s Inflation Report Finally Hints at Progress

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The CPI rose just 0.3% from the previous month. Perhaps most importantly, the annual core rate fell from a year earlier.

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Inflation & Prices

Renters Are Losing Hope They’ll Ever Own a House

A New York Fed survey found renters saying their probability of ever owning a home fell to 40.1%, a new low.

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Real Estate

February Marks a Turnaround for Existing Home Sales

Sick of waiting for the Federal Reserve to make a move, home buyers and sellers seem to be accepting the market for what it is.

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Real Estate

Austin’s Housing Craze Is Starting to Cool Down

Home prices in the Lone Star State’s capital have dropped 12% since 2022 — the largest decline of any US city.

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Real Estate

Soft Housing Market Is Keeping a Lid on Home Improvement Spending

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With home sales continuing to limp along, Home Depot and Lowe’s are reporting that do-it-yourselfers are cutting back on projects.

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Real Estate

HOA Fees Are Adding to the Housing Affordability Problem

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Prospective homebuyers face limited supply, historically high mortgage rates, plus increasingly high homeowners association fees.

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Markets

Homebuilders Feel the Squeeze of Tight Housing Market

Shares of leading US homebuilders have plummeted since an industry-wide peak in July, according to a Financial Times analysis.

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Power Corridor

The Great Housing Crisis

As housing prices reach record highs nationwide – against quite a few forecasts at the start of the year – buying a home is now completely unaffordable in most parts of the country for the average American.

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Power Corridor

Surviving the Roller-Coaster Ride that Is the U.S. Economy

The U.S. Economy is taking Americans for a ride, interest rates hit a 23-year high at 8.34 percent on 30-year mortgages.

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Real Estate

Mortgage Rates Inch Toward 8% and Nobody’s Happy About it

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US mortgage rates have climbed past 7.5% — further tightening an increasingly impossible-to-crack housing market.

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Markets

The Market Might Be Losing its Mojo

On Tuesday, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 both sank to their lowest respective levels in three months. What has investors so anxious?

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Real Estate

The Tight Housing Market Is Getting Even Tighter

Low supply, high prices, and the climbing costs of borrowing have created one of the least affordable US housing markets in decades.

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