Housing Market

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Seven Charts Highlight the Strangeness of the Housing Market

The unique conditions created during the last few years have upended the U.S. housing market and led to some unusual trends.

October 12, 2022 - Bloomberg News

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Manhattan Home Sales Slow, Rent Growth Continues

The Manhattan housing market is seeing lower sale prices and a slowdown in demand, but rents in the city are still going up.

October 5, 2022 - Bloomberg

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Remote Work a Key Factor in the Rise of Home Prices

The shift to work-from-home policies drove more than 60 percent of the dramatic recent growth in U.S. house prices, according to a Fed study.

September 28, 2022 - Bloomberg

Suburban Homes

Where Housing Costs Are Falling Fastest

Although median home prices remain close to record highs in many cities, some of the country’s priciest metro areas are seeing home prices plummet.

September 23, 2022 - Bloomberg

California State Capital

California Continues its Housing Policy Reinvention

It’s no longer business as usual in California when it comes to planning and developing housing.

September 22, 2022 - The New York Times

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Hands Off the Houses: Can We Stop Speculative Land Grabs?

From the macro scale to the micro scale, there are many ways in which the housing market playing field is tilted toward financial firms—and many proposals for how to start tilting it back.

September 9, 2022 - Shelterforce Magazine

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Single-Family Home Prices Cool, Rents Continue to Rise

Despite a slowdown in the single-family market, record-high rents show no signs of dropping.

September 8, 2022 - Globe St.

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More Research Needed to Understand the Rental Market

Large institutional investors are changing the realities of the U.S. rental housing market, but a lack of information makes it hard for cities to respond.

September 7, 2022 - Urban Institute

Texas State Capital

Austin Metro Home Sales Slow Dramatically

After a whirlwind of rising costs and sharply spiking demand for housing in smaller cities, the housing market is cooling down to pre-pandemic levels.

July 21, 2022 - KVUE

Rental Construction

Report: Nation Short 3.8 Million Housing Units

Housing underproduction in the United States is growing more severe and more widespread.

July 20, 2022 - Up for Growth

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Local, State Governments Creating Obstacles for Institutional Investors on the Housing Market

Large Wall Street investors are increasing their footprint in the housing market, like they did after the Great Recession, and some local and state governments are inventing new ways to prevent these institutional investors from cornering the market.

July 14, 2022 - Route Fifty

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Price Cuts Spread to More of the U.S. Housing Market

The insanity of the housing market during the pandemic seems to have peaked in an increasing number of U.S. cities, according to recent data.

June 29, 2022 - Bloomberg

Rent

U.S. Rental Market Crosses a New Threshold of Affordability

In a first for the country's rental market, most U.S. apartments are asking for more than $2,000 to rent, according to data recently published by Redfin.

June 21, 2022 - Redfin

Suburban Home

Home Sales to Investors On the Rise

Sales of homes to investors and corporations, often in cash, are pricing out would-be homebuyers.

May 24, 2022 - Houston Chronicle

Suburban Rowhouses

Housing Market May Finally Be Cooling Down

The overheated housing market of the last two years is showing signs of slowing down as home sales fall to the lowest levels since the pandemic began.

May 23, 2022 - Time Magazine

New York City Air Conditioners

AirBnbs Now Outnumber Available Apartments in New York

With more short-term rentals on the market than apartments, New York City’s housing market is more competitive than ever.

May 20, 2022 - Curbed

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Diverging Fortunes: Winners and Losers in the Pandemic Housing Market

The sharp rise in housing costs created massive wealth for property owners, while shutting many potential homebuyers out of the market.

May 4, 2022 - The Denver Post

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Mayor Releases ‘One Fresno Housing Strategy’

The document outlines 47 policies aimed at maintaining affordability and encouraging more housing production in the increasingly expensive Central Valley city.

May 3, 2022 - The Fresno Bee

Chicago, Illinois

Mechanisms for Improving Equity in the Housing Market

A new initiative seeks to support innovations that reduce inequalities in home valuations between Black and white neighborhoods.

April 29, 2022 - Brookings

Suburban Tract Homes

'Corporate Landlords and Market Power': Study Surveys the Single-Family Rental Boom

New research documents the growing footprint of large institutional investors in the housing market during the pandemic, converting more and more of the nation's single-family detached housing units into rental properties.

April 21, 2022 - Open Access Publications from the University of California

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