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Spring Housing Market Faces Crossroads With One ‘Make or Break’ Trend

Spring Housing Market Faces Crossroads With One ‘Make or Break’ Trend

As we move deeper into the spring homebuying season, the U.S. housing market finds itself at a critical crossroads. While the broader economy remains resilient, geopolitical volatility and stubborn inventory trends are creating a challenging environment for buyers and sellers alike. This week, as mortgage rates continue to be battered by shifting waves of geopoliticalRead …

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Newly Built Urban Homes Carry a Massive Price Premium of Up to 300%

Newly Built Urban Homes Carry a Massive Price Premium of Up to 300%

If you’re looking for a newly built home in the city, there are typically fewer options than in the suburbs. Suburban building dominates the current market for new homes, with only 10% of new-construction homes for sale in urban areas, compared with 30% of existing homes, according to the Realtor.com® quarterly New Construction Insights analysis.Read …

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Longevity Threatens Social Security and Homeownership Plans

Longevity Threatens Social Security and Homeownership Plans

Longevity is complicating retirement in more ways than financial planners can count. For one, longer lifespans are fundamentally changing the question of when to retire. A 65-year-old has an average life expectancy of 86, and a 65-year-old couple has a 64% chance that at least one partner will live beyond 90. That’s stretching retirement fromRead …

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Texas Homeowners Accuse SpaceX of Damaging Property With Sonic Booms From Rockets

Texas Homeowners Accuse SpaceX of Damaging Property With Sonic Booms From Rockets

Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company faces two separate lawsuits from more than 150 Texas residents claiming that Starship rocket launches and engine testing have damaged their homes. Both lawsuits were filed on April 30, one in U.S. District Court in Brownsville, TX, and the other in McLennan County’s 414th District Court. The federal complaint broughtRead …

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Joanna Gaines’ Texas Farmhouse Is Getting a Major Overhaul

Joanna Gaines’ Texas Farmhouse Is Getting a Major Overhaul

Home renovation guru Joanna Gaines is putting her talents to good use inside her own Texas farmhouse—revealing that the kitchen space inside her family’s home is undergoing an extensive overhaul that has seen it almost entirely gutted of its original finishes. The Magnolia Network co-founder, 48, and her husband, Chip, 51, have been living insideRead …

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Billionaire Tom Steyer Running for California Governor Says Cities There ‘Do Not Want New Housing’

Billionaire Tom Steyer Running for California Governor Says Cities There ‘Do Not Want New Housing’

Billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the top contenders for governor of California, argued that the state’s leading challenge is its lack of housing affordability, blaming local resistance to new development. Steyer made his remarks during Tuesday night’s televised gubernatorial debate that saw seven candidates seeking to replace outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom—five Democrats and two Republicans—clashRead …

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Where Recording Fees and Taxes Take the Biggest Bite Out of Home Sales

Where Recording Fees and Taxes Take the Biggest Bite Out of Home Sales

When Sandra Meyers sold a condo and bought a single-family home last year in Delaware, she wasn’t prepared for the hit she’d take from government taxes and fees. “I always thought Maryland was high for closing, but this hurt,” she wrote on Facebook. “Run all the numbers, but brace yourself.” She said she’d sold herRead …

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