5 Cities to Buy Real Estate in, Including 3 With Prices Under $180K

From a real-estate investing perspective, there’s little not to like about the Midwest right now. That’s according to Dave Meyer, BiggerPockets’ housing market expert and the author of “Start With…

China home prices fell at faster rate in December: real estate survey

People visit a residential sales office in Shandong Province, China, on Dec. 15, 2022. Home prices in 100 cities fell for the sixth month in a row in December, according…

Mortgage Rates Hit 7%, Housing Prices Expected to Fall

Few analysts, however, expect the market to crash as it did after the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, in part because of stricter underwriting practices and a massive swell of home-price…

Which Industries Are Impacted The Most By Lumber Prices?

| getty Key takeaways The price of lumber impacts many industries, from construction to transportation. When the real estate market cools down, fewer people spend money on home improvements and…

Map: How fast sellers are slashing home prices in America’s 97 biggest housing markets

The Pandemic Housing Boom saw U.S. home prices spike an unprecedented 43% in just over two years. But that’s over now: Spiked mortgage rates have pushed the U.S. housing market…

Lumber Prices Are Lower, but Your Home Projects Could Still Cost More

Photo: istockphoto.com The skyrocketing price of lumber has dominated headlines in the residential construction world over the past couple of years. However, the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) report shows…

Should I wait for real estate prices to crash before I buy a house? Here are 3 simple reasons why this housing downturn is nothing like 2008

Two years in, this decade has already brought a global pandemic, record-setting inflation, rising interest rates and a country more divided than ever before. So why not a housing crash…