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Housing market “pushed to the limit” as mortgage rates jump, sales slump

The housing slowdown we’ve been anticipating for months is here. The big picture: Home sales are slowing down, and some of the pandemic era’s hottest “Zoomtowns” — sleepy areas where remote workers pushed up real-estate prices — are already seeing price drops. Why it matters: The idea of a real estate downturn might seem scary, especially […]

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The No. 1 emerging real-estate market in America is also the RV capital of the world

The pandemic spurred millions of Americans to abandon city life, fleeing to the ‘burbs. A new report highlights a novel destination for would-be homeowners to consider: The R.V. capital of the world. The Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets Index, released Tuesday, ranked Elkhart-Goshen, Ind., as the top housing market.  (Realtor.com is owned by the same […]

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China’s homebuyers are running out of patience with the real estate slump

Chinese real estate developers, including highly indebted Evergrande, have operated a business that relied on selling apartments before they were completed. Pictured here is an Evergrande development in Beijing on Jan. 6, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s real estate market desperately needs a boost in confidence, analysts said, after reports […]

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10 U.S. real estate markets that are cooling the fastest

David Ryder | Getty Images After staggering growth during the pandemic, the U.S. housing market is starting to cool — and it’s happening fastest along the West Coast. The quickest-cooling real estate market is San Jose, California, according to a new Redfin analysis, which ranked U.S. metropolitan markets based on median sales prices, year-over-year inventory […]

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‘Prices may dip’ in some markets: 5 economists and real estate pros on what to expect from this ‘in transition’ housing market

What’s going on with the housing market now? Getty Images Though mortgage interest rates have been slowly ticking up — with some pros saying we may see more of that (you can see the lowest mortgage rates you can get here) — summertime homebuyers have likely noticed that housing price growth doesn’t seem to be slowing […]

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